Depression

Depression

The prevalence of these psychiatric disorders are only a little more common than in the middle years of the childhood, but the pattern is markedly closer to that of adulthood.

On the basis of these studies, a prevalence rate between 15-20% has been found for diagnosable psychiatric disorders at this age. During adolescence an increase is usually found for depression, schizophrenia, anorexia nerve’s, suicide, drug dependence and phobic disorders, whereas enuresis, encopresis, and over-activity disorders usually become less common.