Childhood Depression

Miles, Gillian

Series Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Childhood Depression Project -- Background: a short history of the recognition of childhood depression -- Individual Therapy -- The wake-up call of adolescence: time-limited clinical work with three young people -- Lost boys: aspects of projective identification, countertransference, and enactment with three boys -- Affirming a sense of agency: the influence of supervision in once-weekly, time-limited work with a depressed child patient -- Brief psychodynamic psychotherapy in adolescent depression: two case studies -- The work with the parents alongside individual therapy with the children/young people: present and absent parents -- Some reflections on the individual therapy: themes and interventions -- Family Therapy -- The family therapists' experience -- Systemic supervision in the context of a research project: the supervisors' perspective -- Co-morbidity: childhood depression and anxiety in family therapy -- Research -- Childhood depression: a place for psychotherapy -- Psychodynamic and family psychotherapy for young people with major depression: preliminary findings on their psychosocial adjustment -- Depressed children and young people: treatment outcome and changes in family functioning in individual and family therapy -- Conclusions -- Reflections and thoughts: learning from the study