Depressed Parents and Their Children

The association between parental history of diagnosed mood/anxiety disorders and psychiatric symptoms and disorders in young adult offspring

“…The magnitude of the associations observed concords with that reported in previous population-based and clinical studies [25-33,35,36,38,39]. In addition, maternal history was related to symptoms of social phobia in offspring.…”

Hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal and autonomic response to psychological stress in abstinent alcohol use disorder individuals with and without depressive symptomatology

“…While cut‐off scores of 16 are traditionally recommended (Roberts et al., 1990; Weissman et al., 1977), we chose to use a slightly lower score for several reasons. First, a cut‐off of 16 on the CES‐D has often been documented as producing a high number of false negative rates compared with Research Diagnostic Criteria (Weissman et al., 1986). For example, in a community sample of 525 participants, the CES‐D yielded a false‐negative rate of 40% compared with a false‐positive rate of 16%, as determined by RDC (SHIN et al., 1991).…”

Children of depressed parents: An integrative review.

“…There is some evidence to support the latter possibility. Infants of depressed mothers have been found to show limited responsivity to stimulation, depressed activity levels after delivery (Field et al, 1985; Sameroff et al, 1982), and more perinatal problems (Weissman et al, 1986). Whatever the origin of the child's interactional pattern, it is noteworthy that it generalizes to strangers early in life and also evokes a negative response from strangers (Field et al, 1988).…”

“…There is some evidence to support the latter possibility. Infants of depressed mothers have been found to show limited responsivity to stimulation, depressed activity levels after delivery (Field et al, 1985;Sameroff et al, 1982), and more perinatal problems (Weissman et al, 1986).…”