▪ Abstract This chapter reviews recent research on the relationship between stressful life
experiences and depression. A distinction is made between aggregate studies of overall …

Depression is a highly recurrent disorder with significant personal and public health
consequences. Prevention of recurrence would be extremely desirable, and thus …

OBJECTIVE: The recurrence of an affective disorder in people who initially recover from
major depressive disorder was characterized by using the unique longitudinal prospective …

Objective It is a widely held belief that affective disorders are progressive of nature; however,
some recent reviews have questioned this belief. The objective of the present systematic …

Obiective: The authors develop an exploratory, integrated etiologic model for the prediction
ofepisodes of major depression in an epidemiologic sample of women. Method: Both …

The long-term relationships between various forms of childhood adversity and adult
episodes of major depression are explored in a representative household survey of the …

During the past decade, evidence from research on mood disorders has demonstrated that
remission is the optimal outcome of treatment. However, there continues to be considerable …

Depressive illness beginning early in life can have serious developmental and functional
consequences. Therefore, understanding the disorder during this developmental stage is …

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the longitudinal clinical course and adult sequelae of
adolescent unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) using a controlled longitudinal …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 118 (4) of
Psychological Review (see record 2011-23298-002). An incorrect version of Figure 2 was …