Integrated Treatment for Teens With Depression When your teenager is diagnosed with clinical depression – known as major depressive disorder (MDD) – you have practical decisions to make. For the purposes of this article, we assume your teen received a full evaluation from a licensed mental health professional. We further assume you arranged a consultation for a second opinion, which confirmed the diagnosis: major depressive disorder. That means your next

Modern Teen Depression Treatment: The Medical Model and Integrated Treatment To understand the latest developments in depression treatment for teenagers, it’s helpful to understand the history of depression treatment. We won’t go back far, because evidence-based treatment for mental health disorders, as we know it, is a relatively new field. Most people understand that what we think of as modern psychotherapy began in the 1890s with the legendary work of

How to Know When Your Teen Needs Inpatient Treatment for Depression When your teen first started showing signs of depression, you probably thought what most parents think. Here are some things we bet you told yourself: “It’s a phase. It’s typical teen moodiness. Teens’ mood swings are impossible to decipher. I was up and down as a teen, myself. They’ll bounce back.“ Then, when they didn’t bounce back, you took