Oral

This informative session will include presentations about a variety of psychiatric epidemiology studies. Two presentations will focus on depression: one analysis of depression and eating pathology in youth and the other is a presentation of the epidemiology of depression in Puerto Rico. Other presenters will discuss psychiatric epidemiology among young rural Chinese adolescents and substance use among adolescents in California.

Session Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, the learner (participant) will be able to: 1) Determine the relationship between eating pathology and depressive symptomology; 2) Assess the interrelationships between self-esteem, delinquency, depression and suicidal ideation; and 3) Describe the epidemiology of depression in Puerto Rico.