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Parental Depression and Parenting Skills in the Context of a Preventive Intervention
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Parental Depression and Parenting Skills in the Context of a Preventive Intervention
| Title: | Parental Depression and Parenting Skills in the Context of a Preventive Intervention |
| Author: | Bettis, Alexander |
| Abstract: | In a randomized clinical trial with families of parents with a history of major depressive disorder, changes in parenting and parental depressive symptoms were examined in relation to the effects of a family group cognitive behavioral preventive intervention (n = 111 families). Changes in parenting were assessed at 6-months and changes in parental depressive symptoms were assessed at 2- and 12-months. Significant differences favoring the family intervention as compared with a written information condition were found for changes in direct observation measures of parenting and questionnaire measures of parents' depressive symptoms. Changes in observed positive parenting at 6-months predicted changes in parents' depressive symptoms at 12-month follow-up. Changes in parents' depressive symptoms at 2-months did not predict changes in parenting on any of the measures at 6-months. Implications for teaching parenting skills to depressed parents in the context of an intervention are highlighted. |
| Description: | This paper examines the directional relationship between parenting and parental depression in a sample of parents with current or past MDD. Under the Supervision of Dr. Bruce Compas, Psychology Research Honors Program, Vanderbilt University |
| Subject: | Parental depression, parenting, prevention |
| LCSH Subject: |
Depression
Children of depressed persons Depressed persons -- Family relationships Parenting |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/4068 |
| Date: | 2010 |
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