Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 12 , Pages 1424-1432 , December 2008

Predicting Female Depression Across Puberty: A Two-Nation Longitudinal Study

,Accepted 25 June 2008.

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 This research was supported through a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA-012140-05), National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services (Richard Catalano, PI) and the Australian Health Management Research Fund. The work of George Patton was supported by a fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council. The work of John Toumbourou was partly supported by a fellowship from the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation.This article is the subject of an editorial by Dr. Bonnie T. Zima in this issue.

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doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181886ebe

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 12 , Pages 1424-1432 , December 2008

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