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- So Young, So Sad, So Listen
- So Young, So Sad, So Listen
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword to Second Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 How Can You Know if Your Child Is Depressed?
- Chapter 2 Understanding Depression in Children and Young People
- Chapter 3 What Parents Can Do to Help Build a Child’s Resilience to Depression
- Chapter 4 Helping Children Cope with Common Stresses: What Parents Can Do
- Chapter 5 When a Child Is Depressed: What Parents Can Do
- Chapter 6 Getting Professional Help: A Guide to Services for Children and Young People with Depression
- Chapter 7 Last Words – from a Parent
- Chapter 8 Message to Governments
- Resources and Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 3 - What Parents Can Do to Help Build a Child’s Resilience to Depression
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2020
- So Young, So Sad, So Listen
- So Young, So Sad, So Listen
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword to Second Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 How Can You Know if Your Child Is Depressed?
- Chapter 2 Understanding Depression in Children and Young People
- Chapter 3 What Parents Can Do to Help Build a Child’s Resilience to Depression
- Chapter 4 Helping Children Cope with Common Stresses: What Parents Can Do
- Chapter 5 When a Child Is Depressed: What Parents Can Do
- Chapter 6 Getting Professional Help: A Guide to Services for Children and Young People with Depression
- Chapter 7 Last Words – from a Parent
- Chapter 8 Message to Governments
- Resources and Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Like a plant, depression grows because a particular seed (perhaps psychological, such as a loss, or perhaps physical, such as a viral infection) has been planted in soil that is good for growth. The child’s genes or inherited characteristics, the child’s personality and the child’s early experiences can be seen together as the soil in which the seed is planted. Just as both seed and soil are necessary for plant growth (you won’ t get much plant unless you have both of these), so when we look at depression we need to look at both the seeds – the stresses or triggering events – and the nature of the child at the time these events occur. It would be meaningless to say that one or the other is the cause: both are necessary.
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- So Young, So Sad, So ListenA Parents' Guide to Depression in Children and Young People, pp. 30 - 39Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020