Journal of Adolescent Health
Volume 42, Issue 6 , Pages 605-616 , June 2008

Protective and Vulnerability Factors Predicting New-Onset Depressive Episode in a Representative of U.S. Adolescents

  • Benjamin W. Van Voorhees, M.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    • Section on Community Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago
    • Section on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Benjamin W. Van Voorhees, M.D., M.P.H., The University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637.
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  • David Paunesku, B.A.

      Affiliations

    • Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    • ,
  • Sachiko A. Kuwabara, M.A.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
    • ,
  • Anirban Basu, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    • ,
  • Jackie Gollan, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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  • Benjamin L. Hankin, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
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  • Stephanie Melkonian, B.A.

      Affiliations

    • Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    • ,
  • Mark Reinecke, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

Received 21 June 2007 ,Accepted 14 November 2007.

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PII: S1054-139X(07)00494-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2007.11.135

Journal of Adolescent Health
Volume 42, Issue 6 , Pages 605-616 , June 2008

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