THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT UPON MOTHER-CHILD COMMUNICATION

本研究考察了抑郁母亲和她们的孩子之间的情感语言 以确定母亲的精神治疗是否存在差异 对应于他们与孩子交谈能力的不同 是关于感觉的。这涉及到评估母亲在以下方面的准确性 向孩子解释情感表达，2)母亲的能力 纠正孩子对面部表情的错误解读，3) 母亲用情感术语限定和阐述讨论的能力，以及 4)孩子对母亲情绪表达理解的准确性。 84名受试者对关于情感的言语交流的准确性进行了评估 来自三个母亲类别的母亲/孩子，对照组，患有抑郁症 精神治疗和抑郁症没有治疗。母亲们是 采用SADS-L诊断，并按RDC评分。历史上的 在诊断性面谈期间接受了精神治疗。 母亲/孩子关于情绪的口头交流使用了八项评估 婴儿通过面部表情表达情感的图片。这个 母亲和孩子对这些照片的讨论以准确性为标准进行了评分。一个 经方差分析比较发现，患有抑郁症的母亲 心理治疗在与孩子沟通时更准确 比没有治疗的抑郁母亲情绪低落(p&lt；.03)；抑郁 接受治疗的母亲在传达负面信息方面最准确 特别是情绪，与抑郁的母亲不同 处理(P&lt；.01)；对照组之间没有显著差异 有精神治疗史的母亲和抑郁症母亲 情感交流的准确性。

Affective language between depressed mothers and their children is examined to determine whether differences in mothers' psychiatric treatment corresponds to differences in their ability to talk with their children about feelings. This involves assessing 1) mother's accuracy in interpreting emotional expression to her child, 2) mother's ability to correct her child's inaccurate interpretation of facial expression, 3) mother's ability to qualify and elaborate discussion in emotion terms, and 4) the child's accuracy in interpreting emotional expression to mother. Verbal communication about emotion was assessed for accuracy in 84 mother/child pairs from three maternal categories, Control, Depressed with psychiatric treatment and Depressed without treatment. Mothers were diagnosed using the SADS-L and scored according to RDC. History of psychiatric treatment was obtained during the diagnostic interview. Mother/child verbal communications about emotions were assessed using eight pictures of infants expressing emotions through facial expression. The mother/child discussion of these pictures was scored for accuracy. A comparison by ANOVA established that depressed mothers who have had psychotherapy were more accurate in communicating with their children about emotion than were depressed mothers with no treatment (p < .03); depressed mothers with treatment were most accurate in communicating about negative emotions specifically, and differed from the depressed mothers with no treatment (p <.01); there were no significant differences between control mothers and depressed mothers with a history of psychiatric treatment in accuracy of affective communication.