"Compared to boys, adolescent girls face an increased risk of depression and repeated recurrences throughout adulthood. This unique volume presents a comprehensive multidisciplinary framework for understanding how girls become vulnerable to mood disorders and how that vulnerability might be reduced. The contributors are leading scholars at the cutting edge of theory, research, intervention, and policy. The chapters cover new developments in the science of depression--from genes to biological, psychological, and social processes--and explore how the research is being translated into innovative prevention efforts"--Provided by publisher.

Depression in adolescent girls : challenges for basic science and prevention / Timothy J. Strauman, Philip R. Costanzo, and Judy Garber -- Contributions from epidemiology / E. Jane Costello and Adrian Angold -- New behavior-genetic approaches to depression in childhood and adolescence : gene-environment interplay and the role of cognitions / Helena M.S. Zavos ... [et al.] -- Integrating affective, biological, and cognitive vulnerability models to explain the gender difference in depression : the ABC Model and its implications for intervention / Amy H. Mezulis ... [et al.] -- The public costs of depression in adolescent girls / E. Michael Foster, Brigitt Heier-Leitzell, and the Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group -- The role of rumination in promoting and preventing depression in adolescent girls / Katie McLaughlin and Susan Nolen-Hoeksema -- A contextual model of gender differences in the development of depression after the death of a parent / Michelle Little ... [et al.] -- Stress, coping, socialization, and goals : a self-regulation perspective on gender and depression in adolescence / Alison A. Papadakis and Timothy J. Strauman -- Prevention of depression in youth : sex differences in effects / Judy Garber and Lindsay E. Downs -- Primary prevention of secondary depression : indirect prevention of depression in girls by treating or preventing primary obesity or insomnia / Greg Clarke, Lynn DeBar, and Bobbi Jo Yarborough -- Preventing girls' depression during the transition to adolescence / Jane E. Gillham and Tara M. Chaplin -- Preventive intervention in families of depressed parents : a family cognitive-behavioral intervention / Bruce E. Compas, Gary Keller, and Rex Forehand.