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First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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This book provides counselors with the information they need to recognize and treat childhood depression... It is well-grounded in research on childhood depression and offers useful models of assessment and treatment. -- Christian Counseling Today <br>.,. the author's attempts to identify children who are symptomatically depressed and to treat them effectively with relatively shortterm, noninvasive behavior modification within the school system is an important contribution to the mental health of children and their families. Continuation and evaluation of this work should be encouraged. -- Hospital and Community Psychiatry <br>Practicality is the hallmark of this work. This is born out by even the index, which includes such items as teenagers' cutdowns, ' feeling fat, ' popularity, ' and sense of humor in the therapeutic relationship.'...The text betrays the hand of an author who intimately understands and is concerned about depressed children.' -- Journal of Clinical Psychiatry <br>One of the most productive researchers in field of childhood depression, Kevin Stark, describes the use of school-based intervention for this disorder....This volume definitely fills a gap in our knowledge. The author thoroughly outlines the problems of defining and diagnosing childhood depression, its prevalence and characteristics, and various assessment tools available...' -- Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography <br>

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Kevin D. Stark PhD, Educational Psychology, University of Texas, Austin.

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