Childhood Depressive Disorder from the Empirical Taxonomies Perspective

Abstract

This work aimed to analyze the Childhood depressive disorder from the Achenbach and Edelbrocks' (1983) model of empirical taxonomies. Several differential aspects of the diagnostic of depressive disorder in children and adults were reviewed. A clinical sample of 208 children between 6 and 12 years old took part in this study. Their parent filled in the Childhood Clinical Inventory (ICI) adapted both from the Achenbach and Edelbrocks' (1983) Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and the Conners' parent scale. The depressive symptoms were grouped according to the Clark et al.'s (1992) proposal. The presence of several depressive symptoms in the internalizing disorders and the rate of incidence of depression in the reference sample are addressed.