The purpose of this research was to examine the proportion of clients diagnosed with a depressive disorder who also exhibit one or more comorbid disorders. In addition, this study examined multiple aspects of age and gender associated with comorbid disorders in an attempt to better inform treatment and diagnosis of depressive disorders and associated disorders and to answer two questions: 1) What is the proportion of clients diagnosed with a depressive disorder who also exhibit one or more comorbid disorders; and 2) Are there significant differences in number of comorbid disorders among developmental stages and gender. The current study helps to shed light on the understanding of comorbid disorders related to childhood and adolescent depression. Previously, no other study had investigated the changes in comorbidity that take place across childhood development.The present study used an archival data set obtained from the Dean-Woodcock Neurological Battery. Participants included patients that had been referred for psychological and neuropsychological evaluation and treatment at a large outpatient Midwestern neurology practice. For the purpose of the present study, participants were selected from the data set for analysis if he or she were diagnosed with a depressive disorder and were than nineteen-years of age. The sample included 136 males and 74 females (n=210). The ages of the participants ranged from 4 year-old to 18 years-old. Results of an ordinal regression revealed that males were significantly more likely to have a greater number of comorbid diagnoses than females. Additionally, participants appeared to exhibit a greater number of comorbid disorders as the age of the participant increased. / Department of Educational Psychology

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-124). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Psychology)--Vanderbilt University, Dec. 2006. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

M.A.(Clinical Psychology) / Recently the concept of depression in children has been receiving much attention, in contrast to the previous decade when children were generally regarded as being incapable of experiencing depression. This study was conducted in an attempt to ascertain whether depressed children exhibited a depressogenic attributional style as predicted by the Reformulated Learned Helplessness Model of Depression (Abramson, Seligman & Teasdale, 1978), and whether these children's attributional style matched those of either of their parents. Furthermore, the childrearing practices of the parents were investigated in order to establish whether parental attributional style was transferred to children through a particular child-rearing style. The Children's Depression Inventory (Kovacs & Beck, 1977) was used to screen 166 privata school pupils, and an experimental and control group of 10 pupils each was formed on the basis of criterion scores. The KASTAN (Kaslow, Tannenbaum & Seligman, 1978) was the instrument employed to assess the attributional style of the children. Both mothers and fathers of the experimental and control groups were required, separately, to complete the Attributional Style Questionnaire (Peterson, Semmel, Abramson, Seligman & von Baeyer, 1978), which assesses adult attributional style and the Child-Rearing Practices Questionnaire (Dielman, Catell, Lepper & Rhoades, 1971). Data obtained from the investigation were subjected to t-tests, and Pearson product-moment correlation co-efficients were calculated to determine any significant differences and associations, respectively, between variables. The results of the study did not substantiate the hypotheses. It was suggested that perhaps the initial screening instrument, the Children's Depression Inventory, differentiated children with a general emotional disturbance, rather than depression per se, and that children develop attributional styles independently of their parents' style and childrearing practices. It was suggested that the development of an attributional style in children was related to their own experiential world.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-169). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2001. Graduate Programme in Psychology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-116). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ66378.