RESILIENCE AS A RISK FACTOR FOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: HOW THE PRIMARY CARE CAN PREVENT THIS DISEASE.

INTRODUCTION: Depression is a disease that affects young people in an universal way, and the family can be positive or negative when it comes to the onset of this mental disorder, depending on the factors that involves the family structure and it’s role in the children’s and teenager’s formation. OBJECTIVE: Clarify resilience as a risk factor for the development of depression in children and adolescents, and to understand how the family can act preventively, in this situation, along with the active support of the family doctor, through health promotion. METHOD: The study was conducted for six months by the participants through a literature review. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: It was noticed that low resilience makes the young people more susceptive to become depressive, and the main symptoms are changes in the cognitive function and distorted reality interpretations. So, the family‘s effective participation in the child‘s life is crucial to the progress of treatment of depression in children. Besides, it’s important the family doctor to be aware when he’s attending the patient, because, if he notices that the family has some relationship issues of any kind or relatives addicted in alcohol or other drugs, he needs to refer the children and adolescents to a psychologist or a psychiatrist, depending on the situation. This is way of trying to prevent depression, since it was seen in this study that these situations make the young ones more susceptive to have low resilience, which is a risk factor for kids and teenagers develop depressive disorders.