Adolescent Major Depression: Challenges to Treatment
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Achieving adolescent adherence to treatment of major depression
When treatments are ordered for adolescent major depression, or for other adolescent medical illnesses, adherence and clinical outcomes are likely to be unsatisfactory, unless 4 basic principles of the medical treatment of adolescent illness are implemented. These comprise providing effective patient and parent/caregiver education, establishing effective patient and caregiver therapeutic allian...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1044-5463,1557-8992
DOI: 10.1089/cap.2007.1832