Offspring of depressed parents: 20 years later.

By Myrna M. Weissman, Priya Wickramaratne, Y. Nomura, Virginia Warner, D. Pilowsky, H. Verdeli. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Research digest (2009, background): “Strong positive associations between disorder in parents and their offspring are found in both ‘top-down’ samples comprising the offspring of depressed parents, whether from the clinic (Weissman et al., 2006; Hammen et al., 1990) or community (Hammen & Brennan, 2003; Beardslee et al.”
• The Effects of Parental Imprisonment on Children (2008, background): “…parental mental illness and childhood anxiety (see the review by Klein and Pine [2002, pp. 497–99]), and children of depressed parents have about three times the risk of developing major depression themselves compared to children of nondepressed parents (Weissman et al. 1997; Weissman et al. 2006).”
• A review on cognitive impairments in depressive and anxiety disorders with a focus on young adults. (2008, background): “Having depression during early parenting triples the risk for the offspring to develop an anxiety disorder, major depression or substance dependence (Weissman et al., 2006).”
• Transdiagnostic Approaches to the Prevention of Depression and Anxiety (2009, background): “Ten years later (during adulthood), the cumulative rate of anxiety or depression was three times that of control participants (Weissman et al., 2006).”
• Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with depressive disorders. (2007, background): “…and twin studies have shown that MDD is a familial disorder, which is caused by the interaction of genetic and environmental factors (Birmaher et al., 1996; Caspi et al., 2003; Kendler et al., 2005; Pilowsky et al., 2006; Pine et al., 1998; Reinherz et al., 2003; Weissman et al., 2005, 2006b).”