Behavioural signatures of intergenerational transmission of mental health: triangulation of epidemiology and developmental psychology

Abstract

Behavioural signatures of intergenerational transmission of mental health: triangulation of epidemiology and developmental psychology Despite decades of research and parenting support programmes, children of mentally ill mothers remain substantially more likely to have mental health problems themselves. In this project, we shed new light on how to harness the potential of modifying parenting for the prevention of child mental health risk. We study parenting using detailed, ecologically valid and genetically sensitive designs.