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Assignment # 3
Proposed changes

Among the psychological assessments for identifying whether or not children and adolescents are experiencing depression or depressive symptoms is the Children's Depression Inventory. '''However, reliance on inventories and checklists alone can lead to significant numbers of false-positive and false-negative results. For this reason, in addition to depression-specific screening tools, mental health professionals will also conduct interviews with the child/adolescent and other people who know them well.'''

CITATION: Zuckerbrot, R. A., Cheung, A., Jensen, P. S., Stein, R., Laraque, D., & GLAD-PC STEERING GROUP (2018). Guidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care (GLAD-PC): Part I. Practice Preparation, Identification, Assessment, and Initial Management. Pediatrics, 141(3), e20174081. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2017-4081

Rationale for Proposed Change

Presentation of a single primary source reference for a single assessment does not provide a complete picture of the complex clinical decision making process that professionals use in order to arrive at a diagnosis of clinical depression in children and adolescents. My proposed changes update this section by informing the reader that simple tests alone can be misleading, and that the results of these tests are backed up by multiple interviews and information gathering. Further, the reference which I am using to cite this information is a very rich source of current information regarding best practice guidelines for childhood and adolescent depression which can help to further inform the interested reader.

There are no significant controversial topics present in the talk page of this article. One common talking point in psychiatry articles is the updating of references to the DSM-V from the current DSM-IV citation, however this has not been accomplished in this article yet or raised in the “talk” section. There is a comment regarding assessment of childhood and adolescent depression in schools in the talk page which has not yet made it into the article. This is a relatively specific piece of information that would not, by and large, serve to educate the interested (and possibly troubled) reader as much, I believe, as the changes I have proposed (as small as they may be). A major overall issue with this page is the lack of complete and balanced information, which my addition also hopes to address.

Critique of Source

The reference I have selected is from a set of updated clinical practice guidelines from the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. It is a very comprehensive work which includes easy to understand graded evidence quality scales for their individual guidelines. I believe that much more of this article could potentially be updated just from the high-quality information in this article.

What to post on the Wikipedia article talk page?

 * This will also be covered on Nov 23rd in class. Your group should use the below template to share an outline of your proposed improvements (including your new wording and citations). Article talk pages are not places to share your assignment answers. The Wikipedia community will be more interested in viewing your exact article improvement suggestions including where you plan to improve the article (which section), what wording you suggest, and the exact citation (Note: all citations must meet WP:MEDRS)
 * You will not be able to paste citations directly from your sandbox to talk pages (unless you are interested in editing/learning Wiki-code in the "source editing" mode). We suggest re-adding your citations on the talk page manually (using the cite button and populating the citation by pasting in the DOI, website, or PMID). You will have to repeat this process yet again when you edit the actual article live.
 * Talk Page Template: CARL Medical Editing Initiative/Fall 2020/Talk Page Template