Depression among students with learning disabilities: Assessing the risk

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-10

  Maag, John W ^a   Reid, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 32844457823     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00222194060390010201     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
2. Beck, A. T., Steer, R. A., & Garbin, M. G. (1988). Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory: Twenty-five years of evaluation. Clinical Psychology Review, 8, 77-100.
3. Beck, A. T., Ward, C. H., Mendelsohn, M., Mock, J., & Erbaugh, J. (1961). An inventory for measuring depression. Archives of General Psychiatry, 4, 561-571.
4. Bender, W. N. (1987b). Secondary personality and behavioral problems in adolescents with learning disabilities. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 20, 301-305.
5. Bender, W. N., Rosenkrans, C. B., & Crane, M. K. (1999). Stress, depression, and suicide among students with learning disabilities: Assessing the risk. Learning Disability Quarterly, 22, 143-156.
6. Bender, W. N., & Wall, M. E. (1994). Social-emotional development of students with learning disabilities. Learning Disability Quarterly, 17, 323-341.
7. Bladow, L. (1982). Locus of control of learning disabled and non-disabled children. Psychological Reports, 50, 1310.
8. Brumback, R. A. (1979), Use of operational criteria in an office practice for diagnosis of children referred for evaluation of learning or behavior disorders. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 49, 299-311.
9. Brumback, R. A., Dietz-Schmidt, S. G., & Weinberg, W. A. (1977). Depression in children referred to an educational diagnostic center: Diagnosis and treatment and analysis of criteria and literature review. Disturbances of the Nervous System, 38, 529-535.
10. Brumback, R. A., Jackoway, M. K., & Weinberg, W. A. (1980). Relation of intelligence to childhood depression in children referred to an educational diagnostic center. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 50, 11-17.
11. Brumback, R. A., & Stanton, R. D. (1983). Learning disability and childhood depression. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 53, 269-281.
12. Cantwell, D. P., & Baker, L. (1982). Depression in children with speech, language, and learning disorders. Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 15, 51-59.
13. Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
14. Colbert, P., Newman, B., Ney, P., & Young, J. (1982). Learning disabilities as a symptom of depression in children. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 25, 333-336.
15. Cooper, H., & Hedges, L. V. (Ed.). (1994). Handbook of research synthesis. New York: Russell Sage.
16. Dalley, M. B., Bolocofsky, D. N., Alcorn, M. B., & Baker, C. (1992). Depressive symptomatology, attributional style, dysfunctional attitude, and social competency in adolescents with and without learning disabilities. School Psychology Review, 21, 444-458.
17. Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, P.L. 94-142, 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq.
18. Forness, S. R., & Sinclair, E. (1990). Learning disabilities in children with clinical depression. In H. L. Swanson & B. K. Keogh (Eds.), Learning disabilities: Theoretical and research issues (pp. 315-332). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
19. Gardner, R. (1971). Therapeutic communication with children: The mutual storytelling technique, New York: Science Home.
20. Geisthardt, C., & Munsch, J. (1996). Coping with school stress: A comparison of adolescents with and without learning disabilities. Journal of learning Disabilities, 29, 287-296.
21. Glass, G. V., McGaw, B., & Smith, M. L. (1981). Meta-analysis in social research. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
22. Goldstein, D., Paul, G. G., & Sanfilippo-Cohn, S. (1985). Depression and achievement in subgroups of children with learning disabilities. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 6, 263-275.
23. Hall, C. W., & Haws, D. (1989). Depressive symptomatology in learning-disabled and nonlearning-disabled students. Pschology in the Schools, 26, 359-364.
24. Heath, N. L., & Ross, S. (2000). Prevalence and expression of depressive symptomatology in students with and without learning disabilities. Learning Disability Quarterly, 23, 24-36.
25. Heath, N. L., & Wiener, J. (1996). Depression and nonacademic self-perceptions in children with and without learning disabilities. Learning Disability Quarterly, 19, 34-44.
26. Hedges, L., & Olkin, I. (1985). Statistical methods for meta-analysis. New York: Academic Press.
27. Hollon, S. D., & Kendall, P. C. (1980). Cognitive self-statements in depression: Development of an automatic thoughts questionnaire. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 4, 383-395.
28. Kashani, J. H., Cantwell, D. P., Shekim, W. O., & Reid, J. C. (1982). Major depressive disorder in children admitted to an inpatient community mental health clinic. American Journal of Psychiatry, 139, 671-672.
29. Kashani, J. H., McGee, R. O., Clarkson, S. E., Anderson, J. C., Walton, L. A., Williams, S., et al. (1983). Depression in a sample of 9-year-old children. Archives of General Psychiatry, 40, 1217-1233.
30. Kashani, J. H., & Simonds, J. F. (1979). The incidence of depression in children. American Journal of Psychiatry, 136, 1203-1205.
31. Kavale, K. A. (1984) Potential advantages of the meta-analysis technique for special education. The Journal of Special Education, 18, 61-72.
32. Kazdin, A. E. (1987). Assessment of childhood depression: Current issues and strategies. Behavioral Assessment, 9, 291-319.
33. Kestenbaum, C. J. (2000). How shall we treat children in the 21st century? Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 39, 1-10.
34. Kovacs, M. (1983, April). The Children's Depression Inventory: A self-rating depression scale for school-aged youngsters. Unpublished manuscript. (Available from Maria Kovacs, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261)
35. Maag, J. W., & Behrens, J. T. (1989). Depression and cognitive self-statements of learning disabled and seriously emotionally disturbed adolescents. The Journal of Special Education, 23, 17-27.
36. Maag, J. W., Behrens, J. T., & DiGangi, S. A. (1992). Dysfunctional cognitions associated with adolescent depression: Findings across special populations. Exceptionality, 3, 31-47.
37. Maag, J. W., & Forness, S. R. (1991). Depression in children and adolescents: Identification, assessment, and treatment. Focus on Exceptional Children, 24(1), 1-19.
38. Maag, J. W., & Katsiyannis, A. (1996). Counseling as a related service for students with emotional or behavioral disorders: Issues and recommendations. Behavioral Disorders, 21, 293-305.
39. Maag, J. W., & Reid, R. (1994). The phenomenology of depression among students with and without learning disabilities: More similar than different. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 9, 91-103.
40. Margalit, M., & Levin-Alyagon, M. (1994). Learning disability subtyping, loneliness, and classroom adjustment. Learning Disability Quarterly, 17, 297-310.
41. Margalit, M., & Shulman, S. (1986). Autonomy perceptions and anxiety expressions of learning disabled adolescents. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 19, 291-293.
42. Navarrete, L. A. (1999). Melancholy in the millennium: A study of depression among adolescents with and without learning disabilities. High School Journal, 82, 137-149.
43. Newcomer, P. L., Berenbaum, E. M., & Bryant, B. R. (1994). Depression and Anxiety in Youth Scale: Examiner's manual. Austin, TX: PRO-ED.
44. Newcomer, P. L., Barenbaum, E., & Pearson, N. (1995). Depression and anxiety in children and adolescents with learning disabilities, conduct disorders, and no disabilities. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 3, 27-39.
45. Orwin, R. G. (1983). A fail-safe N for effect in meta-analysis. Journal of Educational Statistics, 8, 157-159.
46. Powers, D. (1979). The teacher and the adolescent suicide threat. Journal of School Health, 49, 561-563.
47. Reid, R., & Maag, J. W. (1994). How many fidgets in a pretty much: A critique of be-havior rating scales for identifying students with ADHD. Journal of School Psychology, 32, 339-354.
48. Reynolds, W. M. (1986). A model for the screening and identification of depressed children and adolescents in school settings. Professional School Psychology, 1, 117-129.
49. Reynolds, W. (1987). Reynolds adolescent depression scale (Form HS): About myself. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
50. Reynolds, W. M., & Stark, K. D. (1987). School-based intervention strategies for the treatment of depression in children and adolescents. In S. G. Forman (Ed.), School-based affective and social interventions (pp. 69-88). New York: Haworth.
51. Rodriquez, C. M., & Routh, D. K. (1989). Depression, anxiety, and attributional style in learning-disabled and non-learning-disabled children. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 18, 299-304.
52. Rosenberg, M. S., Adams, D. C., & Gurevitch, J. (2000). Meta-Win. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.
53. Rosenthal, R. (1979). The "file drawer problem" and tolerance for null results. Psychological Bulletin, 86, 638-641.
54. Rosenthal, R. (1984). Meta-analytic procedures for social research. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
55. Rourke, B. P., Young, G. C., & Leenaars, A. A. (1989). A childhood learning disability that predisposes those afflicted to adolescent and adult depression and suicide risk. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 22,169-175.
56. Saylor, C. F., Finch, A. J., Jr., Spirito, A., & Bennett, B. (1984). The Children's Depression Inventory: A systematic evaluation of psychometric properties. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 52, 955-967.
57. Smucker, M. R., Craighead, W. E., Craighead, L. W., & Green, B. J. (1986). Normative and reliability data for the Children's Depression Inventory. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 14, 25-39.
58. Stanley, P. D., Dai, Y., & Nolan, R. F. (1997). Differences in depression and self-esteem reported by learning disabled and behavior disordered middle school students. Journal of Adolescence, 20, 219-222.
59. Stevenson, D. T., & Romney, D. M. (1984). Depression in learning disabled children. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 17, 579-582.
60. Takanishi, R., & DeLeon, P. H. (1994). A head start for the 21st century. American Psychologist, 49, 120-122.
61. Teri, L. (1982a). Depression in adolescence: Its relationship to assertion and various aspects of self-image. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 2, 101-106.
62. Teri, L. (1982b). The use of the Beck Depression Inventory with adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 10, 277-284.
63. Wicks-Nelson, R., & Israel, A. C. (2003). Behavior disorders of childhood (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
64. Willcutt, E. G., & Pennington, G. (2000). Psychiatric comorbidity in children and adolescents with reading disability. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry & Allied Disciplines, 41, 1039-1048.
65. Wolf, F. M. (1986). Meta-analysis: Quantitative methods for research synthesis. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
66. Wright-Stawderman, C., & Watson, B. (1992). The prevalence of depressive symptoms in children with learning disabilities. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 25, 258-264.