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Unique Child Mental Health: Infant depression
Nursery World,
14 November 2007
Practitioners in early years settings may be the first to notice if a child shows what could be the signs of depression. Annette Rawstrone finds out what to do.
Clinical depression, an overwhelming and persistent feeling of hopelessness, sadness and lack of self-worth, is not confined to adults. Children can suffer from it too. It is only in recent years that it has been recognised that even young children can be depressed. In the early 1980s many psychiatrists believed children were incapable of experiencing depression because they lacked the emotional maturity to feel despondent. Now it is thought that children...
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