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Depression and parenting: the need for improved intervention models

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posted on 2024-06-06, 11:08 authored by Megan Galbally, Andrew J Lewis
The impact of maternal depression on parenting is well established and there is a clear interaction between maternal depression and parenting that is predictive of child outcomes. The research on paternal depression is more limited but suggests the father's mental health may be an independent risk factor for both parenting and child outcomes. There is insufficient evidence that treatment of depression alone - be it through pharmacological or psychological interventions - is able to substantially reduce the impact of depression on child outcomes. The evidence of interventions aimed at parenting and/or child outcomes in the context of depression is limited and the findings that are available are mixed.

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Journal

Current opinion in psychology

Volume

15

Pagination

61-65

Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

eISSN

2352-2518

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2017 Elsevier Ltd.

Publisher

Elsevier

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