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Depression study of teens and young adults calls for urgency

New research examining the depression prevalence and treatment trends among adolescents and young adults calls for a sense of urgency regarding treatment for youth with depression. A study published in Pediatrics in November, “National Trends in the Prevalence and Treatment of Depression in Adolescents and Young Adults,” reports a significant climb in the prevalence of major depression in youth in recent years, particularly strongest in teenage girls. In a commentary to the article, Anne Glowinski, M.D., MPE, director of child and adolescent psychiatry education and training and associate director of the William Greenleaf Eliot Division of Child Psychiatry at the university, writes that it is “time to rally.”