In the meantime, doctors will have to struggle with how to treat depressed children and teenagers.

With so many doctors feeling underprepared to treat teenagers and the need so critical, why no rush to those advanced degrees?

Doctors who choose to treat teenagers exclusively have a special affection for them.

I have treated several other teenagers this year who display a similar kind of profound detachment from self.

The school specialized in treating teenagers with behavioral problems.

"Simply put," he concludes, "if we are ever to grow up as a culture, we must start treating teenagers like the adults that they are."

Pilot studies testing the therapy to treat suicidal teenagers, juvenile offenders, depressed older adults and women with eating disorders have also been encouraging.

Whether they favor talk therapy or drugs, doctors and psychologists who treat teenagers every day welcome any debate or public discussion about adolescent depression.

I have treated teenagers who were too sick to attend school and had to be tutored at home to finish their education.

Most of the experts said they would continue to use S.S.R.I.'s to treat children and teenagers.