Adolescents’ beliefs about what symptoms constitute depression: Are more expansive definitions helpful or harmful?

Purpose: What symptoms do people think constitute “depression”? In a mental health literacy framework, knowing more of depression's nine core symptoms (per formal psychiatric diagnostic criteria) is thought to help people identify and seek help for depression. However, the common-sense model of...

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Main Authors: Isaac L. Ahuvia, Kathryn R. Fox, Jessica L. Schleider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-12-01
Series:SSM - Mental Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560323000749