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- Title
Evidence-Based Interventions for Depressed Mothers and Their Young Children.
- Authors
Goodman, Sherryl H.; Garber, Judy
- Abstract
Depression in mothers is a significant risk factor for the development of maladjustment in children. This article focuses on modifiable risk processes linking depression in mothers and adaptation in their young children (i.e., infancy through preschool age). First, the authors present evidence of the efficacy of interventions for reducing the primary source of risk: maternal depression. Second, they describe a central mechanism-parenting behaviors-underlying the relation between maternal depression and children's adjustment. Third, the authors recommend two different integrated interventions that successfully treat mothers' depression and enhance parenting skills with infants and young children. Finally, the authors note the possible need for supplementary interventions to address severity and comorbidity of mothers' depression, barriers to engaging in treatment, and the sustainability of program benefits.
- Subjects
DEPRESSION in parents; PSYCHOLOGY of mothers; ATTITUDES of mothers; MOTHER-child relationship; MENTAL depression; THERAPEUTICS; EDUCATION of mothers; PARENTING; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RESEARCH funding; EVIDENCE-based medicine; PROFESSIONAL practice; CHILDREN of people with mental illness; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Child Development, 2017, Vol 88, Issue 2, p368
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.12732