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The Context of Childhood Depression

The Newcastle Childhood Depression Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

T. P. Berney ,
S. R. Bhate ,
I. Kolvin ,
O. O. Famuyiwa ,
M. L. Barrett ,
T. Fundudis  and
S. P. Tyrer
T. P. Berney*
Affiliation:
The Fleming Nuffield Unit, Burdon Terrace, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE2 3AE
S. R. Bhate
Affiliation:
Sir Martin Roth Young People's Unit, Newcastle General Hospital, Westgate Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE4 6BE
I. Kolvin
Affiliation:
Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and the Tavistock Clinic, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA
O. O. Famuyiwa
Affiliation:
The Fleming Nuffield Unit, Burdon Terrace, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE2 3AE
M. L. Barrett
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
T. Fundudis
Affiliation:
The Fleming Nuffieid Unit, Burdon Terrace, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE2 3AE
S. P. Tyrer
Affiliation:
Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4LP
*
Correspondence
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Abstract

This paper examines the family background, premorbid personality traits and adverse life events preceding childhood depression. The non-depressed group proved more likely to have experienced pre-school bereavement and familial disturbance, and to come from the more deprived background; there was also an excess of premorbid anxiety and hysterical personality traits in this group. School phobia and premorbid obsessional traits were associated with the depressed group. Although there was an association between depression and the total number of adverse life events, this was more substantial when the perceived impact of the events was taken into account. Of the individual classes of life event, only illness and a change in social relationships were associated specifically with depression.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue S11: Depression in Childhood , July 1991 , pp. 28 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991 

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