Depressive symptoms may be transmitted from mother to child via early interactions. Mothers with depressive symptoms display fewer supportive responses to infants’ positive emotions. In turn, infants who receive fewer supportive responses are more likely to exhibit depressive symptoms as toddlers.
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Depressive symptoms might be transmitted from mother to child through early interactions
Mothers with postpartum depression provide fewer supportive responses to their infants’ positive emotions, which increases toddlers’ depressive symptoms, highlighting maternal socialization as a key mechanism in intergenerational depression transmission.
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Men are at risk of mental distress during transition to fatherhood 🤰👶, with prevalence as high as 8% for clinical depression 😞, 11% for anxiety 😟, and 6% to 9% for elevated stress 😫. Fathers’ mental distress is linked to subpar child cognitive, social-emotional, language and physical development 📉.
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CNN
Fathers’ mental health important for child development, study says | CNN
A father’s poor mental health may harm child development, a new study has found. Here’s how fathers, too, can get the support they need.
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For depressed preschoolers (younger than 13 in the U.S.) 🌟, several months of parent-child therapy 👩👧👦 yield positive effects for years 📅.
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WashU Medicine
Early intervention changes trajectory for depressed preschoolers | WashU Medicine
Several months of parent-child therapy program yields positive effects for years, study finds
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New Parents’ Mental Health Matters: Postpartum Depression in Moms 🤱 or Dads 👨🍼 Linked to Higher Autism Risk 🧩
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Frontiers
Frontiers | The association between parental postpartum depression and offspring autism spectrum disorder
ObjectivePostpartum depression (PPD) reportedly affects up to 20% of new mothers. While parental psychiatric history has been associated with an increased li...