Prevention of Adolescent Depression in the Spanish-Speaking World

Andrea B. Horn, Catalina Cañizares and Yvonne Gómez
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Andrea B. Horn: Department of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, University of Zürich, Binzmuehlestr. 14/17, 8150 Zürich, Switzerland
Catalina Cañizares: Department of Psychology, University of Los Andes, Carrera 1 Este Nr. 18 A-12, Bogotá, 11001, Colombia
Yvonne Gómez: Department of Psychology, University of Los Andes, Carrera 1 Este Nr. 18 A-12, Bogotá, 11001, Colombia

IJERPH, 2014, vol. 11, issue 6, 1-19

Abstract: This paper aims at presenting programs targeted at the prevention of adolescent depression applied with Spanish-speaking populations that have been developed in Spanish-speaking countries and are mostly published in Spanish. These programs have been developed under different cultural contexts in Spain and Latin-America. The main goal of this paper is to make the studies and movements of the Spanish-speaking literature in this field accessible to the non-Spanish-speaking part of the research community. Therefore, after an introduction referring to possible cultural differences regarding depression in general and epidemiological basics, several programs are introduced. In total 11 programs will be shortly presented and discussed. After revising the programs it can be concluded that in the Spanish-speaking world many programs have been developed and conducted following current state of the art-approaches for adolescent depression prevention. Further research is needed especially targeting possible cultural and contextual aspects of prevention measures and their efficacy and efficiency.

Keywords: depression; adolescence; prevention; Spanish-speaking depression programs; review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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