1. Clinical Depression Among Adolescents
Treatments include play therapy for younger children, talking therapies or counseling for older children and adolescents, and medications (MHA). ... Family therapy may also be helpful, as well as changes in the teenager's home and school environments to reduce stress (MHA). Recent research by the National Institute of Mental Health shows that certain types of short-term psychotherapy, particularly cognitive-behavioral therapy, or CBT, can help relieve depression in children and adolescents. ... This method of psychotherapy is a time-limited therapy and attempts to change these distorti...
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