Reported child awareness of parental depression

Reported child awareness of parental depression

Aims and method To determine rates of parent-reported child awareness of parental depression, examine characteristics of parents, children and families according to child awareness, and explore whether child awareness is associated with child psychopathology. Data were available from 271 families participating in the Early Prediction of Adolescent Depression (EPAD) study, a longitudinal study o...

Parental Catastrophizing Partially Mediates the Association between Parent-Reported Child Pain Behavior and Parental Protective Responses

This study sought to model and test the role of parental catastrophizing in relationship to parent-reported child pain behavior and parental protective (solicitous) responses to child pain in a sample of children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and their parents (n = 184 dyads). Parents completed measures designed to assess cognitions about and responses to their child's abdominal pain. They al...

Cognitive vulnerability, parental depression, and cortisol 1 Running head: COGNITIVE VULNERABILITY, PARENTAL DEPRESSION, AND CORTISOL ACTIVITY Parental Depression and Child Cognitive Vulnerability Predict Children’s Cortisol Reactivity

Risk for depression is expressed across multiple levels of analysis. For example, parental depression and cognitive vulnerability are known markers of depression risk, but no study has examined their interactive effects on children’s cortisol reactivity, a likely mediator of early depression risk. We examined relations across these different levels of vulnerability using crosssectional and long...

Parent-Child Attachment, Parental Depression, and Perception of Child Behavioural/Emotional Problems

Parental Depression

Although rates of teen pregnancy have declined in the United States in recent years (Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1999), depression rates among low-income teen mothers suggest that adolescent childbearing is still an important social issue. Depression among adolescent mothers is related to rapid repeat pregnancy (Gilmore et al, 1997), less economic success (Danzinger et al., 2000), and poor physi...