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Preventive interventions in families with parental depression: children’s psychosocial symptoms and prosocial behaviour
- Source :
- European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Springer Verlag (Germany), 2010, 19 (12), pp.883-892. ⟨10.1007/s00787-010-0135-3⟩, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Publisher :
- Springer Nature
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Abstract
- International audience; The aim is to document the effectiveness of a preventive family intervention (Family Talk Intervention, FTI) and a brief psychoeducational discussion with parents (Let's Talk about the Children, LT) on children's psychosocial symptoms and prosocial behaviour in families with parental mood disorder, when the interventions are practiced in psychiatric services for adults in the finnish national health service. Patients with mood disorder were invited to participate with their families. Consenting families were randomized to the two intervention groups. The initial sample comprised 119 families and their children aged 8-16. Of these, 109 completed the interventions and the baseline evaluation. Mothers and fathers filled out questionnaires including standardized rating scales for children's symptoms and prosocial behaviour at baseline and at 4, 10 and 18 months post-intervention. The final sample consisted of parental reports on 149 children with 83 complete data sets. Both interventions were effective in decreasing children's emotional symptoms, anxiety, and marginally hyperactivity and in improving children's prosocial behaviour. The FTI was more effective than the LT on emotional symptoms particularly immediately after the intervention, while the effect of the LT emerged after a longer interval. The study supports the effectiveness of both interventions in families with depressed parents. The FTI is applicable in cultural settings other than the USA. Our findings provide support for including preventive child mental health measures as part of psychiatric services for mentally ill parents.
- Subjects :
- Family therapy
Psychological intervention
Anxiety
0302 clinical medicine
ddc:150
Surveys and Questionnaires
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Child and adolescent psychiatry
Psychology
Child
Parental depression
Psychological Disorders, Mental Health Treatment and Prevention
Depression
05 social sciences
General Medicine
Original Contribution
3. Good health
Psychiatry and Mental health
Treatment Outcome
Prosocial behavior
psychische Störungen, Behandlung und Prävention
Family Therapy
medicine.symptom
Randomized trial
Psychosocial
050104 developmental & child psychology
Clinical psychology
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
03 medical and health sciences
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Family
Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
Child mental health
Preventive intervention
Psychiatry
Social Behavior
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Analysis of Variance
Depressive Disorder
Mental health
030227 psychiatry
Mood
Psychologie
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10188827
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7eface65a323af334582783504e13263
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-010-0135-3