The Rate of Severe Depression

question 100

Multiple Choice

The rate of severe depression:

• A) follows no developmental pattern.
• B) declines between young adulthood and old age.
• C) increases between young adulthood and old age.
• D) declines between young adulthood and middle age, and then rises dramatically in old age.

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