Adolescence is a period of transition between ages 13-19 characterized by physical and psychological changes. Depression during this stage, known as adolescent depression, refers to feelings of sadness, low mood, and lack of interest that negatively impact a teen's life. Signs of adolescent depression include changes in behavior, attitude, appetite, sleep, and concentration. While there is no single cause, risk factors include traumatic early life events, biological predispositions, and learned negative patterns. Depression in teens can be prevented through primary prevention at home by open communication between parents and children, secondary prevention treating at-risk behaviors early, and tertiary prevention using medical and psychological therapy for severe cases.

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Adolescence is a term that refers to teenage years between
thirteen and nineteen years. Adolescence itself is a stage and
hence, a stage of transition. This is called a stage of transition
because it is in this stage that many changes takes place in a
person’s body. Such changes includes; physical changes and
psychological changes. On the other hand depression is a term
that describes a situation where one feels very low in moods and
esteem and also avoids activities that contributes to the well
being of a person.
Depression is normally related to anxiety, stress and worst of
all, suicide. Therefore, adolescence depression (Teenage
depression) refers to a serious problem that affects teenagers
and that makes them always sad, very low in mood and also
makes them lack interests in activities that contributes to their
well-being. Adolescence depression can affects a teen’s school
life, personal life, family life, social life and also work life.
It can be very difficult to parents to spot this mental problem in
their children but adolescence depression, like other diseases,
has got signs and symptoms. The most major symptom that can
be noted is change in behavior and attitude. Behavior and
attitude are accompanied by; a teen becoming irritable most of
the time, appearing sad with no genuine reason, changes in a
teen’s appetite, loss of interest in activities that a teen used to
love earlier, feeling of worthlessness, guilt and low self-esteem,
withdrawal from friends or activities that are done after school,
changing sleeping habits and finally difficulty in concentrating
in school work (Robert, Lewinson & Seeley, 2011).
Researchers have confirmed that there is no exact cause of
adolescence depression but there are contributing factors to

2. adolescence depression. Some of the factors are; traumatic early
life events, differences in the brain, inherited traits and also
learned pattern of negative things. Brains of adolescents have a
different structure from adult brain and hence how their
reasoning capacity is very low. Therefore, they can be easily
affected by depression. Traumatic early life experiences can
also make children lack well developed coping techniques. This
hence makes children easily affected by depression when they
become teenagers. Lastly, researchers have proved that teen
depression is related to biological components and therefore, it
can be passed down from parents to their teenage children.
Teens who have relatives or parents who have depression are
more likely to get depression themselves.
Teenage depression can be prevented by methods that are
divided into three major categories. The three categories are;
primary, secondary and finally, tertiary. Primary prevention is
one of the major categories and is normally practiced at home.
This prevention is usually administered by the parents,
guardians and relatives. This prevention is normally done by
parents listening to their children and children talking freely
with their parents. This then gives parents the forum of talking
and advising their children on issues associated with
adolescence.
Secondary prevention is another category. This deals with
already existing behavior. This is normally administered
through treating the behavior as early as possible. This is
always very important because it can be done to prevent the
long term threat that is likely to occur to the teenager.
Lastly, tertiary prevention involves special hospitalization for
very bad behavior which normally includes medical and
psychological therapy to the teenager. Rehabilitation can also
be very important to the affected teenager. The nursing
interventions that can be used to assist the adolescents from
getting depressed is offering the teenagers with psychological

3. treatments, advices and teach them on the things they should do
in order to avoid adolescence depression.
References
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Kaufman, J., Dahl, R. E., ... & Nelson, B. (2006). Childhood
and adolescent depression: a review of the past 10 years. Part I.
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Roberts, R. E., Lewinsohn, P. M., & Seeley, J. R. (2011).
Screening for adolescent depression: A comparison of
depression scales. Symptoms and Signs. Journal of the
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 30(1),
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