ABSTRACT
Depression in children is a growing concern among mental health workers and therapists. The age of onset is steadily decreasing and the incidence of childhood depression in the child mental health services is rising (Angold et al. 1998). The ideas presented in this chapter are based on a large-scale outcome research project which compared individual child psychotherapy to family therapy for a sample of depressed children and their families across three European cities (Campbell et al. 2003; Trowell et al. 2003).
