Depression prevention programs for adolescents

Abstract

The article presents the review of investigations devoted to the elaboration and assessment of depression prevention programs for adolescents. Despite of wide spread of adolescent's depression and suicide in our country the elaboration of prevention programs advances too slowly. Some foreign prevention programs based on the ideas of interpersonal and cognitive behavioral therapy are considered in the article.

Keywords

• depression
• adolescents
• prevention
• interpersonal therapy
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• Penn Prevention Program