Relevance of the Self-Rating Depression Scale for Children to Daily Life

Emotional fluctuations are common during adolescence, including mood swings. The symptoms of the disorder itself can be obscured by behavioural signs that can affect school attendance in each developmental period. The aim of the diploma thesis is to verify the relevance of data from the revised version of The Child Depression Inventory Second Revision (CDI 2) to everyday life through adolescents' school dropout and through parental reports. The content of the theoretical part is a description of developmental milestones in childhood and adolescence, diagnostic criteria and operationalization of everyday functioning with a bridge to the issue of school absence and depressive disorders. The last part describes screening tools in general, and in more detail specific tools most used in the Czech Republic, including CDI 2. The research part was conducted in a medical outpatient facility. Clients aged 12 to 17 were administered the CDI 2 in the Self-Report (CDI 2: SR) and Parent (CDI 2: P) versions, and parents were asked about their child's school dropout. Identical statistical analyses were performed on the complete data set (Complete Data Set) with 196 pairs of adolescent and parent data and on the data set narrowed to the school year (Data Set School Year) with 143 pairs. The results of the analyses...