Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 7 , Pages 683-687 , July 2009

Should Screening for Depression Among Children and Adolescents Be Demedicalized?

  • Allan V. Horwitz, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Allan Horwitz Ph.D., Rutgers University, Sociology and Health Institute, 77 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1248
    • ,
  • Jerome C. Wakefield, Ph.D.

,Accepted 22 January 2009.

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doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181a5e3ad

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 7 , Pages 683-687 , July 2009

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