Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 7 , Pages 703-710 , July 2009

Subthreshold Depressive Disorder in Adolescents: Predictors of Escalation to Full-Syndrome Depressive Disorders

,Accepted 27 February 2009.

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 Drs. Klein and Shankman contributed equally to this article.Supported by the National Institute of Mental Health Grants R01-MH66023 (D.K), R01-MH40501, R01-MH50522, and R01-MH52858 (P.L.).

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doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181a56606

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 7 , Pages 703-710 , July 2009

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