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Denisa Llangos
02/25/14
Accessing& Using Evidence in SW Practice
Camp, SW 3810
Ey8514
In their study, chronic mild stress across the childhoodadolescent period led to depression-like
responses in adulthood, whereas severe sporadic stress was associated with increases in both
anxiety- and depression-related behaviors. Further, the depression-like responses were observed
in the female, but not male, rats, whereas the anxiety-like responses were observed in rats of both
sexes. Depression in the clinic is twice as common in women as in men, and this sex difference
emerges in late childhood. Of specific relevance to the present findings, prominent theories for
the gender difference in depression point to higher stress sensitivity in women as a primary
mechanism. Anxiety and most anxiety disorders are also more common in girls and women.
(Pohl, 2014) What I liked about this article is that the levels of stress and depression differ when
it comes to gender; females tend to have higher level of stress. Results are that the findings
underscore the importance of considering gender and stressor type when examining the impact of
prior chronic stress on behavioral responding. Of more importance, they raise the possibility that
chronic stress throughout the childhoodadolescent period leads to relatively long-lasting
changes in emotionality. Although it does not address ethical and cultural concerns it does have a
clear understanding of the experiment and the study. On this next article I choose was also
focused in childhood and adolescence depression but from also a family type of setting and its
health problems. Findings of the study in the article Effects of childhood conduct problems and
family adversity on health, health behaviors, and service use in early adulthood: Tests of
developmental pathways involving adolescent risk taking and depression show that conduct
problems predicted later conduct problems and risk taking, both of which were significant
References
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Herrenkohl, Todd I., et al. "Effects of Childhood Conduct Problems and Family Adversity
on Health, Health Behaviors, and Service use in Early Adulthood: Tests of Developmental
Pathways Involving Adolescent Risk Taking and Depression."Development and
psychopathology 22.3 (2010): 655-65. ProQuest. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.
Pohl, Joanna, et al. "Repeated Exposure to Stress Across the Childhood-Adolescent
Period Alters Rats' Anxiety- and Depression-Like Behaviors in Adulthood: The Importance of
Stressor Type and Gender." Behavioral neuroscience 121.3 (2007): 462. ProQuest. Web. 25 Feb.
2014.