ABSTRACT
The mood disorders of the teenager are among the psychiatric disorders those who's diagnosis and treatment were the most appreciably modified during these last three decades The objective of our work was to study clinical characteristics and school and domestic echo of the teenager depressive disorder. We led a retrospective, descriptive study about 46 cases of teenagers affected by the mood disorder [OSMIV], and recruited over a period of 4 years [on 1998 in 2001], The age of the beginning of the disorder varied between 12 years and 17 years with a peak in the 13[th] and in the l6[th] years Depression was a dysthymic disorder in 39, 10%of cases a not specified depressive disorder in 21, 7%of cases a bipolar disorder in 13%of cases an adaptation disorder with depressive mood in 17, 4%of cases and a major depressive isolated disorder in 8, 7%of cases. A negative echo on the schooling was noted in 17, 4%of cases. Domestic relational dynamics was disrupted in 69, 6%of cases. Depressive disorder in the adolescence is characterized by the important frequency of dysthymic disorder and not specified depressive disorder these disorders are very diverse and should be better characterised a at the teenagers because of their therapeutic implications The individualization of minor depressions at the teenager is very interesting because of then important frequency and their specific treatement