A developmental perspective for analyzing infant and childhood depression -- The concept of childhood depression -- Identifying infant depression -- Regulation and the development of the self -- Social support as a risk factor for infant an childhood depression -- Parental psychopathology as a risk factor for infant and childhood depression -- Abuse and neglect as risk factors for infant and childhood depression -- Sickness and hospitalization as risk factors for infant and childhood depression -- Handicapped conditions as a risk factor fro infant and childhood depression -- Thrapeutic approaches for affective disorder in infants and children.