Depression, Anxiety at School and Self-Esteem in Children with Learning Disabilities

Recent developments in the field of mental health have led to an increasing interest in the early identification of anxiety and depression symptoms in school-aged population. Longitudinal and epidemiological studies are at the heart of this interest; the first ones documented how depressive symptoms increase in a linear way by creating a continuity from the early depressive episodes to the major depression in adults. 

Similarly, in the long term, anxious children and adolescents showed an increased risk for enlarged rates of unemployment, welfare assistance, lost productivity, use of medical services, all resulting in extremely high economic health costs. Second, epidemiological studies reveal rates of anxiety disorders in pre-school age children and adolescents ranging between 2.1% and 25% depending on methodological differences in the assessment plans.  Read more>>>>