National Institute for Health and Care Research

Why do Anxious Children become Depressed Teenagers? The Role of Social Evaluative Threat and Reward Processing

Childhood anxiety as a pre-cursor to adolescent depression.

Silk et al. (2012) explore childhood anxiety as a pre-cursor to adolescent depression.  They propose that sensitivity to social evaluation is a core in creating anxiety in childhood as well as interacting with changes during adolescence to create vulnerability to depression.  

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