‘Seriously depressed adolescents recover most rapidly if they take antidepressants and get a structured type of therapy rather than one or the other, a landmark government study suggests today.

More than four out of five had greatly improved, and most were no longer depressed after 36 weeks of treatment whether they had therapy, medication or both.

“It’s a good-news story,” says John March, chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center, who led the study on 327 children ages 12 to 17 who had moderate to severe depression. It’s the largest and longest study ever done on depression treatments for adolescents. About 5% of adolescents in the USA have depression, an estimated 1.3 million, national surveys show.’

Read more at Kids’ depression lifts sooner with meds/therapy

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