Preschool Feeling Checklist

Luby, Joan L.; Heffelfinger, Amy; Koenig-McNaught, Amy L.; Brown, Kathy; Sptiznagel, Edward

doi:10.1037/t62103-000

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“…Between 2003 and 2005, preschoolers between the ages of 3.0 and 5.11 were recruited from the St. Louis metropolitan area, using the Preschool Feelings Checklist, 37, 38 and preschoolers with symptoms of MDD were oversampled. With written consent from parents and assent from the children, a sample of 306 children, without head trauma, neurological disease, severe developmental delays, or premature birth, were enrolled into the Validation of Preschool Depression Study, a longitudinal study approved by the Institutional Review Board at the Washington University School of Medicine.…”

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Early Life Stress and Trauma and Enhanced Limbic Activation to Emotionally Valenced Faces in Depressed and Healthy Children

Suzuki

Luby

Botteron

et al. 2014

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psych

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Objective Previous studies have examined the relationships between structural brain characteristics and early life stress in adults. However, there is limited evidence for functional brain variation associated with early life stress in children. We hypothesized that early life stress and trauma would be associated with increased functional brain activation to negative emotional faces in children with and without a history of depression. Method Psychiatric diagnosis and life events in children (starting at ages 3–5) were assessed in a longitudinal study. A follow-up magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study acquired data (N = 115 at ages 7–12, 51% female) on functional brain response to fearful, sad, and happy faces relative to neutral faces. We used a region of interest (ROI) mask within cortico-limbic areas and conducted regression analyses and repeated-measures analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Results Greater activations to fearful, sad, and happy faces in the amygdala and its neighboring regions were found in children with higher life stress. Moreover, an association between life stress and left hippocampal and globus pallidus activity depended on children's diagnostic status. Finally, all children with higher life trauma showed greater bilateral amygdala and cingulate activity specific to sad faces, but not the other emotional faces, although right amygdala activity was moderated by psychiatric status. Conclusions These findings may suggest that limbic hyperactivity is a biomarker of early life stress and trauma in children and may have implications in the risk trajectory for depression and other stress-related disorders. However, this pattern varied based on emotion type and history of psychopathology.

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Early Life Stress and Trauma and Enhanced Limbic Activation to Emotionally Valenced Faces in Depressed and Healthy Children

Suzuki

Luby

Botteron

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Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psych

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“…Children were recruited from primary care settings using a validated checklist designed for the identification of depression and early onset behavior problems (PFC) [32] as well as consecutive case ascertainment from a preschool mental health clinic [33].…”

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Preschoolers’ Contribution to their Diagnosis of Depression and Anxiety: Uses and Limitations of Young Child Self-Report of Symptoms

Luby

Belden

Sullivan

et al. 2007

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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“…Data used for the current study came from the first two waves (1-year interval) of a longitudinal study examining the nosology of preschool depression. Caregivers of preschool children were recruited from pediatricians' offices, daycares, and early childhood centers in the St. Louis metropolitan area using the Preschool Feelings Checklist (PFC; Luby, Heffelfinger, Mrakotsky, & Hildebrand, 1999), which is a brief validated screening tool for early-onset emotional disorders (Luby, Heffelfinger, Koenig-McNaught, Brown, & Spitznagel, 2004). Parents who endorsed two or more "internalizing" and/or two or more "externalizing" items on the checklist as well as parents who endorsed no symptoms were contacted by a trained research assistant via the phone to establish whether inclusion and exclusion criteria for study participation were met.…”

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Depressed and healthy preschoolers' internal representations of their mothers' caregiving: Associations with observed caregiving behaviors one year later

Belden¹,

Sullivan²,

Luby³

2007

Attachment & Human Development

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This study examined diagnostic group differences in children's internal representations of their mothers and mothers' parenting strategies 1 year later. Mother -preschool child dyads (N = 279) were examined. The sample included 151 healthy, 75 depressed, and 53 disruptive disordered preschoolers. The MacArthur Story Stem Battery (MSSB) was administered at baseline. One year later, mothers' caregiving strategies were measured. Results indicated that higher depression severity was associated with preschoolers' greater use of negative and disciplinarian maternal representations. More positive maternal representations had supportive mothers who often expressed positive affect 1 year later. Preschoolers' negative and disciplinarian representations were associated with mothers' later nonsupportive behaviors and negative affect. Results suggest that the MSSB may be a useful child-informant method for interpreting depressed children's internalization of caregiving relationships.

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Preschool Feeling Checklist

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Early Life Stress and Trauma and Enhanced Limbic Activation to Emotionally Valenced Faces in Depressed and Healthy Children

Early Life Stress and Trauma and Enhanced Limbic Activation to Emotionally Valenced Faces in Depressed and Healthy Children

Preschoolers’ Contribution to their Diagnosis of Depression and Anxiety: Uses and Limitations of Young Child Self-Report of Symptoms

Depressed and healthy preschoolers' internal representations of their mothers' caregiving: Associations with observed caregiving behaviors one year later

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