Investigation question: How should childhood depression and anxiety be treated/treated?Introduction: Clinical depression, depression, biological depression and major depression all refer to the same thing. : feeling sad for weeks or months. Depressed people struggle with feelings of hopelessness, hopelessness, and lack of energy; things like getting out of bed, showering, and eating become difficult to do. Recent evidence has validated clinical depression in children as young as 3 years old, but few data are available to evaluate the treatment of early childhood depression (Luby, 2011). These children are often left behind at school, academically and socially. Help from a teacher could make all the difference for them. I would like to try to understand the specific effects of depression on children, who have even less control over their lives. As a future teacher, I think this topic is very important; we need to be informed about how to recognize depression and be able to offer treatment and/or help to cope with it. Research Discussion: Depression in children and young adults is common but often unrecognized. “According to the 1992 National Comorbidity Survey, in the United States, at any given time, nearly 2% of children ages 7 to 12 have major depression. The rate of 6 to 9% among late adolescents is similar to that of adults. (health.harvard.edu, 2002). Under the term depression we find everything from sadness to bipolar disorder, and studies have shown that the number of young people diagnosed with depression increases each year as they age (Kessler, RC and Walters, EE, 1998). Risk factors primarily include a family history of depression, but there are also many other possible triggers: “The...... middle of article......RC and Walters, EE (1998). Epidemiology of DSM-lll-RM major depression and minor depression among adolescents and young adults in the National Comorbidity Survey. Depress. Anxiety 7:3-14. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6394(1998)7:13.0.CO;2-F3.) Levinson, MD, DF, & Nichols, MD, WE (nd). Major depression and genetics. genRED retrieved March 12, 2014 from http://depressiongenetics.stanford.edu4.) Luby, J. (October 8, 2011). Early childhood depression. NCBI.GOV. Retrieved March 12, 2014, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/5.) Mcdevitt T, Ormrod J. (2013). Child Development and Education 5th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill.6.) Park, RJ (August 31, 2010). Depression in children and adolescents.Netdoctor. Accessed March 13, 2014 from http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/depression/childhoodandadolescence_000052.htm