The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia was administered to 42 consecutively hospitalized psychiatrically disturbed adolescents. The SADS proved to be a good measure of current affective disorder and also identified a large number of adolescents with a positive past history of affective disorder. These patients had not been so identified by traditional assessment means.
The use of a semi-structured interview is to be encouraged in the assessment period of psychiatrically disturbed adolescents and in further research at attempts to define the parameters of depressive disorders occurring in adolescents.
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