PSYCHIATRIC STATUS OF CHILDREN OF DEPRESSED PARENTS

很少有研究提供前瞻性数据， 抑郁父母后代的发育过程。 在 我们所看到的每一个发展阶段， 儿童（2至3岁的幼儿，5至6岁随访 年龄：5 - 8岁;哥哥姐姐5 - 8岁，随访8 - 11年）， 已经进行了精神评估， 父母的诊断状态，家庭环境变量，和 发展变量 在迄今为止的分析中， 父母的诊断和孩子的 精神状况 在2至3岁时，评估没有 通过父母的诊断来区分孩子。 的10%左右 这些孩子在井中和抑郁中被评定为有风险 家长群体。 我们分析了中产阶级背景的孩子， 最初被视为幼儿，在他们的第一次后续评估。 在 这一次，他们表现出的问题（DSM-III诊断）， 不同的频率取决于父母的诊断，即，百分之十五 在健康父母的孩子中，21%的抑郁父母的孩子 母亲和健康的父亲，以及47%的抑郁症儿童， 父母 当他们的兄弟姐妹在8到11岁时 年，相应的百分比分别为8%，28%和53%。 同样的数据被重新检查与单极和 双相母亲抑郁症 在这一点上， 这两个群体的问题频率。

There is very little research that provides prospective data on the developmental course of offspring of depressed parents. At each of the developmental periods at which we have seen the children (younger child at 2 to 3 years, followed up at 5 to 6 years; older sibling 5 to 8 years, followed up at 8 to 11 years), psychiatric assessments have been made, to be related to parental diagnostic status, family environmental variables, and developmental variables. In analyses to date, we have focused on associations between parental diagnoses and children's psychiatric status. At 2 to 3 years of age, assessments did not differentiate the children by diagnosis of parents. About 10% of the children were rated at risk in the well and in the depressed parent groups. We analyzed the children of middle-class background, who were initially seen as toddlers, at their first follow-up assessment. At this time they manifested problems (DSM-III diagnoses) with different frequencies depending on parental diagnosis, i.e., 15% of the children of well parents, 21% of the children of depressed mothers and well fathers, and 47% of the children of depressed mothers and fathers. When their siblings were seen at 8 to 11 years, the corresponding percentages were 8%, 28%, and 53%. The same data were re-examined in relation to unipolar and bipolar maternal depression. There was little difference in the frequencies of problems in these two groups.