I Just Want You to be Happy

Leanne Rowe

A practical, sympathetic, reassuring and highly accessible guide for every parent concerned that their teenager is depressed - written by three experts in teenage health.One of the most challenging and problematic issues facing Australia today is the increasing rate of youth depression and the high suicide rates of our young people. When most parents only want their teenagers to be happy, it is distressing to know that 1 in 5 teenagers will experience major depression before they are 18 years of age and that the change of a child developing depression has tripled in the last 30 years. Depression is also particularly prevalent in girls; staggeringly, over 340,000 prescriptions of antidepressants were written for young people under 18 in 2005.I Just Want You to be Happy describes the factors contributing to this increasing depression in young people and why our search for constant...