| dc.contributor.advisor |
Compas, Bruce E. |
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| dc.contributor.author |
Bettis, Alexander |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2010-05-16T20:20:19Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2010-05-16T20:20:19Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2010 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/4068 |
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| dc.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 |
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| dc.description.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. |
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| dc.description.sponsorship |
Thesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological Sciences |
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| dc.language.iso |
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| dc.publisher |
Vanderbilt University |
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| dc.subject |
Parental depression, parenting, prevention |
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| dc.subject.lcsh |
Depression |
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| dc.subject.lcsh |
Children of depressed persons |
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| dc.subject.lcsh |
Depressed persons -- Family relationships |
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| dc.subject.lcsh |
Parenting |
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| dc.title |
Parental Depression and Parenting Skills in the Context of a Preventive Intervention |
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| dc.type |
Thesis |
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| dc.description.college |
College of Arts & Science |
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| dc.description.school |
Vanderbilt University |
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| dc.description.department |
Psychological Sciences |
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