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With rising prevalence of depression in adolescents, screening requirements are increasingly falling on pediatric primary care providers, ...

It is the property of President and Fellows of Harvard College and is affiliated with all of the Departments of Psychiatry at the Harvard teaching hospitals. Articles encompass all major issues in contemporary psychiatry, including (but not limited to) neuroscience, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, history of psychiatry, and ethics. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 19,800 people worldwide. We support clinical effectiveness, learning and research, clinical surveillance and compliance, as well as data solutions. Cannabis, alcohol, and nicotine are also associated with depression in adolescents and can hinder effective treatment of both. The article reviews evidence of lifestyle interventions in physical activity, sleep, nutrition, substance use, social connectedness, and stress, demonstrating efficacy or feasibility in reducing depressive symptoms in adolescents. An online program in Australia has shown that increased knowledge of substances, depression, and anxiety reduced likelihood of drinking. [With rising prevalence of depression in adolescents](https://journals.lww.com/hrpjournal/Fulltext/2022/09000/Back_to_Basics__Lifestyle_Interventions_for.2.aspx?utm_source=press&utm_medium=press&utm_campaign=hrp_pr_091522), screening requirements are increasingly falling on pediatric primary care providers, who are encountering more at-risk patients. Benheim, BA, and her colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital, along with Michelle Dalal, MD, of the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and Daniel Hosker, MD, in the September/October issue of the Founded by the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, the journal is peer-reviewed and not industry sponsored. The utility, versatility, and cost-effectiveness of lifestyle interventions are well known. For example, one revealed that a two-hour decrease in sedentary activity in patients between ages 12 and 16 reduced depression scores by 16%–22% by age 18.