Depression Runs in Families - The Social Context of Risk and Resilience in Children of Depressed Mothers

"Depression runs in families." Above all, the goal of thisbook is to come to some conclusions about the meaning ofthat simple assertion, which has a far from simple ex-planation of meaning. This book is designed to address someof the gaps in previous research on depressive disorders inthe family context: the sheer numbers of people withaffective disorders marks them as our most commonpsychiatric problem.

List of contents

1 Studies of Children of Depressed Parents.- 2 Methods of the Current Study.- 3 Diagnoses and Dysfunction in Children at Risk.- 4 Vulnerability to Depression: The Role of Children's Cognitions.- 5 Family Stress.- 6 Parent-Child Relationships and Depression.- 7 Familial and Parental Clinical Characteristics.- 8 Risk and Resilience.- 9 Summary and Implications: Understanding Depression in Families at Risk.- References.

Product details

• Authors: Constance Hammen
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.2012
• EAN: 9781468464122
• ISBN: 978-1-4684-6412-2
• No. of pages: 275
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 17 mm
• Illustrations: VII, 275 p.
• Series: Series in Psychopathology; Series in Psychopathology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology