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Risk and resilience for adolescent depression
Longitudinal study of mood and feelings
This is a longitudinal study of emotional processing in adolescents with a depressed parent. It aimed to identify cognitive processes that could be measured reliability and were risk and protective factors for developing adolescent depression. We have identified a number of risk processes, including over-general autobiographical memory and lowered sensitivity to reward. Recent work has focused on protective factors which include executive functioning and cognitive ability. This is a collaborative study with Cardiff University and involved tracking over 300 families where a parent has major depression and there is at least one teenager living at home.