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Is this crying child depressed or just hungry?

There’s so much research and help available now for people who suffer from clinical depression. But what about when the symptoms of depression manifest in small children? Researchers and child psychologists are finding that many pre-school children exhibit the same kind of crushing, debilitating sadness that is so ruinous for adults. What does depression look like in children? And can they be helped, either through therapy or medication? And is it right to give children new anti-depressant drugs?

Guests:

Dr. Gabrielle Carlson, Specialist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stony Brook University on Long Island

Tamar Chansky, founder of the Children’s Center for Obsessive Compulsion Disorder and Anxiety in suburban Philadelphia