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Depression Disorder Chenango Forks Central School District library holdings High School Library

Non-fiction:

Cush, Cathie. (1994) Depression . Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers.  Deals with a variety of issues related to teenage depression, including personal relationships and pressures, substance abuse, suicide, running away, and how to get help and develop coping skills. Call # 616.85 Cus

Demetriades, Helen A. (2002). Bipolar disorder, depression, and other mood disorders . Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow.  Identifies the causes, symptoms, and treatment of mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and depression, which can have environmental, genetic, or physiological aspects. Call # 616.85 Dem

Denkmire, Heather. (2005). The truth about fear and depression . New York : Facts On File.  Presents a comprehensive study of the causes of anxiety disorders and depression, recognizing the signs of depression, and receiving treatment for it and provides facts and information to help understand mental illness and ways to cope with phobias. Call # 616.85 Den

Gelman, Amy. (2000)Coping with depression and other mood disorders . New York : Rosen Pub. Group.  This book discusses depression and other mood disorders, physical and emotional causes of depression, and various effective treatments. Call # 616.85 Gel

Hales, Dianne R. (1989) Depression . New York : Chelsea House.  Explores some causes of depression, ways to overcome this illness, and where and when to seek help. Call # 616.85 Hal

Need Photo Lee, Essie E. (1986). Down is not out : teenagers and depression . New Depression Disorder Chenango Forks Central School District library holdings York : J. Messner.  Discusses mental depression, its causes, its effects, and some of the ways it can be dealt with. Call # 616.85 Lee

Lee, Jordan. (2000). Coping with anxiety and panic attacks . New York : Rosen Pub. Group.  This book discusses major anxiety disorders, the causes of these disorders, and the various treatments of the disorders. Call # 616.85 Lee

Lucas, Eileen. (2010). More than the blues?: understanding and dealing with depression. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers.  This book examines depression and mood disorders, including the causes of depression, a history of the illness, the various types of mood disorders, and treatment methods. Call # 616.85 LUC

Peak, Lizabeth. (2008). Mood disorders. Detroit: Lucent Books.  An exploration of mood disorders that defines what they are, discusses diagnosis and treatment, and examines how people cope with them. Call #616.85 PEA

Silverstein, Alvin & Virginia. (1997). Diseases and People: Depression. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers.  Written with high school aged students as an audience, the book discusses historical figures who may have been depressed and defines clinical depression, treatment, and prevention Call # 616.85 SIL

Weeldreyer, Laura. (1998) Body blues : weight and depression. NY: Rosen Publishing Group, 1998.  Discusses negative feelings that teens have when they define themselves by appearance, and provides information on eating disorders. Call # 616.85 Wee Depression Disorder Chenango Forks Central School District library holdings Wolff, Lisa. (1999). Teen depression . San Diego, CA : Lucent Books.  Discusses the nature, possible causes, special problems, and both conventional and alternative treatments of depression. Call #616.85 Wol

Fiction:

Easton, Kelly. (2009). To be Mona. New York: Margaret K. McElderry.  Summary: Sage tries to hide her mentally ill mother and get a football player to go out with her, but eventually she realizes that abandoning her real friends and letting herself be manipulated by others does not make her feel better. (FIC EAS)

Jenkins, A. M. (2001). Damage. New York: HarperCollins.  Summary: Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems very special. (Fic Jen)

Marchetta, Melina. (2003;2006). Saving Francesca . New York : Alfred A. Knopf.  Summary: Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed. (Fic MAR)

Need photo Maynard, Joyce. (2005). The cloud chamber . New York : Aladdin.  Summary: In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school science fair. (Fic May) Depression Disorder Chenango Forks Central School District library holdings Michaels, Rune. (2011). Nobel genes. New York: Atheneum.  Summary: A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told him that his father won a Nobel Prize, spends his time taking care of her and searching for clues to the identity of the Nobel Prize- winning sperm donor, eventually finding a truth he must learn to accept. (FIC MIC)

Miklowitz, Gloria D. (1983). Close to the edge . New York : Dell.  Summary: In spite of having all the advantages money can provide, high-school senior Jenny sees little point in life until she volunteers to play the piano for a senior citizens' band and receives the benefit of elderly wisdom. (Fic Mik)

Ockler, Sarah. (2010). Fixing Delilah. New York: Little, Brown.  Summary: When Delilah, her mother, and her aunt spend the summer in Vermont settling Delilah's estranged grandmother's estate, long-held family secrets are painfully brought to light and Delilah finally learns some difficult truths about her family's past. (FIC OCK)

Plath, Sylvia. (1971; 2005) The bell jar. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics.  Summary: Autobiographical novel about an ambitious and brilliant young woman's search for values, and her eventual breakdown. (Fic PLA)

Quick, Matthew.(2011). Sorta like a rockstar: a novel. New York: Little, Brown.  Summary: Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression. (FIC QUI)

Vizzini, Ned. (2006) It's kind of a funny story . New York : Miramax Books/Hyperion Paperbacks For Children, 2007.  Summary: A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital. (Fic VIZ) Depression Disorder Chenango Forks Central School District library holdings White, Ellen Emerson. (1995). The road home . New York : Scholastic.  Summary: A young nurse stationed in Vietnam during the war, must come to grips with her wartime experiences once she returns home to the United States. (Fic Whi)

Wild, Margaret. (2002) Jinx . New York : Simon Pulse.  Summary: With the help of her understanding mother and a close friend, Jen eventually outgrows her nickname, Jinx, and deals with the deaths of two boys with whom she had been involved. (Fic Wil)

Wittlinger, Ellen.(2006) Blind faith . New York : Simon Pulse.  Summary: While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist church, whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer. (FIC WIT)

Young, Janet Ruth. (2008)The opposite of music. New York: Pulse  Summary: With his family, fifteen-year-old Billy struggles to help his father deal with a debilitating depression. (FIC YOU)