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INTRODUCTION : Depressionis one of the most prevalent and common mental health illnesses. Adolescent depression may affect the teen's socialization,family relations, and performance at school, often with potentially serious long term consequences. Objectives: 1. To assess the knowledge on identification of depression symptoms in adolescents among Parents in pretest. 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on identification of depression symptoms in adolescent among parents in post-test. 3. To find out the association between the knowledge on identification of depression symptoms in adolescent among parents with their selected socio demographic variables. Methodology: Quasi- experimental with one group pre-test and post- test design was adopted for this study. The study was conducted in Nehru Nagar and Chennareddy colony, Tirupati among parents of adolescents by convenient sampling technique. The data was collected through structured questionnaire for identifying the depression symptoms and followed by a teaching programme. After 7days the post-test was administered through the same questionnaire. The post-test Mean scores of identification of depression symptoms among parents of adolescents was 17.12 and standard deviation was 2.953.The collected 't' value is 7.84 which was statistically significant at 0.01 level. The association between identification of depression symptoms in adolescent among parents with their selected socio demographic variables were statistically significant at 0.01 level respectively in post-test.Where as the demographic variable namely age of parents in years and significant association with identification of depression at 0.05 level. Results:showsthat the pre-test and post-test scores among parents of adolescents. In pre testMajority 88% of parents had inadequate knowledge, 10% of them had moderate knowledge and only 2% of them had adequate level of knowledge on identification of depressive symptoms in adolescents after post test the results were Conclusions:Identification of the depression symptoms in adolescents is very important present days majority of adolescents not expressing their needs and problems and confined to the mobiles. After providing structured Teaching programme there was significant difference in the post-test scores. The findings suggested that most of the parents have shown interest to identify depression symptoms among adolescents. There was an increased knowledge regarding early identification of depressive symptoms among adolescents.