PSYCHIATRIC STATUS OF CHILDREN OF DEPRESSED PARENTS

本研究的目的是评估社会情绪功能， 幼儿的情感疾病和良好的父母，考虑到 具体问题出现的发展阶段和 他们的发展。 这些家庭根据母亲的诊断进行分类： 双相情感障碍（N=22）、单相抑郁症（N=41）和正常对照 （N=37）。 父亲的诊断结果也出来了。 成对的兄弟姐妹 研究了 年龄较小的孩子在1岁半到3岁半之间， 研究开始时，兄弟姐妹的年龄在5到8岁之间。 的两个来源 使用信息：精神病评估和母亲的报告。 对儿童的破坏性行为、焦虑和 抑郁的特征 到了童年中期和晚期， 母亲患有情感疾病的孩子表现出抑郁， 有破坏性行为的母亲比有健康母亲的孩子多。 后代 患有情感疾病的母亲也更有可能有多种问题。 单极母亲的后代与双相母亲的后代的比较 在较早的年龄就出现了问题， 在两个兄弟姐妹。 时间或发展是一个显着的影响， 破坏性、抑郁性和焦虑性问题水平的频率 行为出现了，并且以母亲诊断的不同方式出现。

The research objective was to assess the social-emotional functioning of young children of affectively ill and well parents, taking into account the developmental periods at which specific problems appear and the course of their development. The families were classified by mother's diagnoses: bipolar illness (N=22), unipolar depression (N=41) and normal control (N=37). Father's diagnosis was also obtained. Pairs of siblings were studied. The younger child was between 1 1/2 and 3 1/2 years and the older sibling was between 5 and 8 years when the study began. Two sources of information were utilized: psychiatric evaluations and mother's reports. Children were evaluated on dimensions of disruptive behavior, anxiety, and depressive characteristics. By middle and late childhood, significantly more children of affectively ill mothers exhibited depressive and disruptive behavior than did children of well mothers. Offspring of affectively ill mothers were also more likely to have multiple problems. Offspring of unipolar mothers compared with offspring of bipolar mothers developed problems at earlier ages, and problems were more likely to appear in both siblings. Time or development was a significant influence on the frequencies with which disruptive, depressive, and anxious problem-level behavior appeared, and in ways that differed by mother's diagnosis.