PARENT AND CHILD REPORTS OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN CHILDREN AT LOW AND HIGH RISK OF DEPRESSION

The K‐SADS‐K psychiatric interview was administered to children and parents from families containing proband parent's who had previously been depressed or who were normal Agreement between parents and their children about depressive symptoms in the symptoms in the children was significant but low Boy's reports agreed more highly with their parents reports about them than did girls' reports Overall, the children reported more depressive symptoms than their parents reports about them and the overall pattern suggests that parents are relatively insensitive to their children's depressive symptomatology. but their reports show high specificity The implications of research findings for research and clinical work are discussed.