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Children of Parents with Affective Disorders

Empirical Findings and Clinical Implications

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Handbook of Depression in Children and Adolescents

Part of the book series: Issues in Clinical Child Psychology ((ICCP))

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For decades, it has been well-established by empirical studies that severe mental illness in parents is associated with an increased rate of psychiatric disorder in their offspring (Buck and Laughton, 1959; Ekdahl, Rice, & Schmidt, 1962; Rutter, 1966; Landau, Hauth, & Othnay, 1972). Recently, a series of rigorous empirical studies have been conducted with the children of parents with serious affective disorder. These studies are a result of both the recognition of the entity of childhood depression and the awareness that children of parents with affective disorders are themselves at particularly heightened risk for depression. Even though the studies employ different conceptual frameworks and methods, there is a clear consensus in the empirical research literature that children of parents with affective disorders fare much more poorly than comparison samples. A variety of reviews have appeared over the last decade or so documenting these findings (Beardslee, Bemporad, Keller, & Klerman, 1983; Waters, 1987; 2uckerman & Beardslee, 1987; Orvaschel, Walsh-Allis, & Ye, 1988; Lee & Gotlib, 1989), and, most recently and extensively, there have been reviews by Downey and Coyne (1990), Rutter (1990), and Keitner and Miller (1990). While studies up until the middle of the last decade used very different approaches and measures and hence are difficult to compare (Beardslee et al., 1983), recent studies have concentrated on the use of structured diagnostic interviews of the parents scored according to standard criteria and standardized systematic assessments of the children’s functioning (Downey and Coyne, 1990).

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Beardslee, W.R., Wheelock, I. (1994). Children of Parents with Affective Disorders. In: Reynolds, W.M., Johnston, H.F. (eds) Handbook of Depression in Children and Adolescents. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1510-8_21

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