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A Teacher's Guide to Understanding and Working with

Students with Depression



Introduction
The position of depression as a disability is ambiguous. Though early definitions of emotional and behavioral disabilities included depression, more recent definitions seem to leave depression as a possible side effect of the primary emotional and behavioral disabilities (Gearheart 367). Our primary textbook lists depression and suicide under "Related Considerations" along with adolescence and Substance Abuse (413). Despite this apparent backpedaling, Gearheart, et al. states that "childhood and adolescent depression as a disorder differentiated from adult depression has only recently become a topic of study."

What is clear is the need for recognition and dissemination of information about this very valid disability. As one student wrote, "Teachers are trained to handle students who lack discipline, the slow learners, the extremely bright, and even......

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