Depression Runs in Families: The Social Context of Risk and Resilience in Children of Depressed Mothers

ISBN-13: 9781468464122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 275 str.

Constance Hammen

Opis

"Depression runs in families." Above all, the goal of this book is to come to some conclusions about the meaning of that simple assertion, which has a far from simple ex- planation of meaning. This book is designed to address some of the gaps in previous research on depressive disorders in the family context: the sheer numbers of people with affective disorders marks them as our most common psychiatric problem.

Spis treści

1 Studies of Children of Depressed Parents.- 2 Methods of the Current Study.- 3 Diagnoses and Dysfunction in Children at Risk.- 4 Vulnerability to Depression: The Role of Children’s Cognitions.- 5 Family Stress.- 6 Parent-Child Relationships and Depression.- 7 Familial and Parental Clinical Characteristics.- 8 Risk and Resilience.- 9 Summary and Implications: Understanding Depression in Families at Risk.- References.

O autorze

The research presented in this monograph investigates how a woman suffering from depression affects her children, and more specifically, if the child is also at risk to develop depression or another psychopathological state.