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This picture shows early adolescence that is depressed because they don’t fit in with most groups. Jean Piaget believed that thinking occurred in stages and during early adolescence thinking shifted from concrete operational thought to formal operational thought. An environmental factor which helps to foster formal operational thought can be the child’s membership in a more heterogeneous group of peers such as a junior high or high school. Within these groups there may be various social groups, ethnicities, religions, and etc. Values and expectations are seen and realized as different from their peers.
This video demonstrates some of the signs and symptoms of depression in adolescence. During early adolescence ages 12-18 years of age, teens deal with the pressure of trying to fit in with other social groups. When one does not fit in with others, this causes them to isolate themselves from others and feel rejected and ignored. Depression is linked to experiencing negative peer comparisons in areas that are considered to be important to others, such as good looks, athletic ability, having money, or having good social skills. This may lead them towards social withdrawal or self-destructive actions. Cognition is the process of organizing and making meaning of experience. Cognitive Behavioral theories (sometimes called "cognitive theories") are considered to be "cognitive" because they address mental events such as thinking and feeling. Cognitive behavioral theorists suggest that depression results from maladaptive, faulty, or irrational cognitions taking the form of distorted thoughts and judgments. Depressive cognitions can result from a lack of experiences that would facilitate the development of adaptive coping skills. Depressed people tend to misinterpret facts in negative ways and blame themselves for any misfortune that occurs. This negative thinking and judgment style functions as a negative bias. It makes it easy for depressed people to see situations as being much worse than they really are, and increases the risk that such people will develop depressive symptoms in response to stressful situations.