Major depressive disorder significantly impacts the developmental trajectory of youth as well
as adults, and cognitive vulnerability models of depression have contributed to our …

Temple University, Philadelphia ln this article, we review findings from the Temple-
Wisconsin Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression (CVD) Project (Alloy & Abramson, 1999) …

Ever since their introduction in the late 1960s, cognitive theories of vulnerability to
depression have generated a vast amount of empirical attention (Abramson et al., 2002; …

Research examining the epidemiology of depression suggests that ado-lescence may be a
critical period for understanding the development of this disorder for two reasons. First …

Cognitive theories of depression have been shown to be potent predictors of future
increases in depressive symptoms and disorder in children, adolescents, and adults. This …

This paper quantitatively reviews longitudinal studies examining three central cognitive
theories of depression—Beck's theory, Hopelessness theory, and the Response Styles …

The articles in this special issue address empirically potential developmental origins of
cognitive vulnerability to depression. The findings from these studies converge on the theme …

Cognitive vulnerability is a central concept in cognitive theories of unipolar depression. This
idea suggests that negative cognitive factors emerge during stressful situations, and that this …

In this chapter, we review the large literature relevant to vulnerability to adolescent
depression from several perspectives, focusing on cognitive, contextual, and genetic and …

Abstract Theory and empirical research assessing the developmental precursors of
depression is examined. This theory and research tends to emphasize three sets of …