PIMH: Impact of parental mental health on children

• The interaction of maternal personality traits and intimate partner violence as influences on maternal representations
  The authors say that parenting stress is associated with poor maternal and child outcomes and that multiple contributors to parenting stress have been proposed. This study examined the relation between childhood trauma a ...
  
  Publisher: Infant Mental Health Journal
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Maternal postnatal mental health and later emotional–behavioural development of children: the mediating role of parenting behaviour
  According to the authors, maternal postnatal mental health difficulties have been associated with poor outcomes for children. One mechanism by which parent mental health can impact on children's outcomes is via its effec ...
  
  Publisher: Child: Care, Health and Development
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Intercepting the intergenerational cycle of maternal trauma and loss through mother–infant psychotherapy: A case study using attachment-derived methods
  Some mothers who have recently lost a significant attachment figure may become mentally incoherent and sporadically even enter a trancelike, dissociative state. Such states of mind have been shown to predict infant attac ...
  
  Publisher: Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Mother–infant bonding impairment across the first 6 months postpartum: the primacy of psychopathology in women with childhood abuse and neglect histories
  The aim of the researchers was to examine the trajectory of bonding impairment across the first six months postpartum in the context of maternal risk, including maternal history of childhood abuse and neglect and postpar ...
  
  Publisher: Archives of Women's Mental Health
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Maternal depression, family functioning and children's longitudinal development
  Analysis of data from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth reveals that 6% of children are born to mothers who experienced symptoms of depression during their first two years of life.
  
  Publisher: Journal of Pediatric Nursing
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Mental health in primary care for adolescent parents
  According to the authors – who are based in the US – mental health care is important for everyone, especially teenagers. However, seeking mental health services may be challenging for teenagers, particularly when they ar ...
  
  Publisher: Mental Health in Family Medicine
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Psychotherapy groups and individual support to enhance mental health and early dyadic interaction among drug-abusing mothers
  The purpose of this controlled study was to examine the outcome of psychodynamic mother–infant group psychotherapy (PGT) outpatient intervention for drug-abusing perinatal mother–infant dyads. PGT comprised 20 to 24 week ...
  
  Publisher: Infant Mental Health Journal
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Partner report of paternal depression using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale-Partner
  The authors suggest that paternal depression may have adverse effects on the family environment (e.g. partner mental health, child behaviour) but detection is rare because the maternal–child health care system usually on ...
  
  Publisher: Archives of Women's Mental Health
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Sleep problems and mental health in primary school new entrants: cross-sectional community-based study
  The aim of this study was to determine at school entry the prevalence and types of child sleep problems, sleep difficulties and hygiene practices associated with sleep problems, and their associations with child health-r ...
  
  Publisher: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Intellectual disability and other neuropsychiatric outcomes in high-risk children of mothers with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and unipolar major depression
  Recent evidence points to partially shared genetics of neuropsychiatric disorders. The authors of this research examined risk of intellectual disability and other neuropsychiatric outcomes in 3,174 children of mothers wi ...
  
  Publisher: The British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Parent psychopathology and offspring mental disorders: results from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
  Associations between specific parent and offspring mental disorders are likely to have been overestimated in studies that have failed to control for parent comorbidity. Researchers examined the associations of parent wit ...
  
  Publisher: The British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• SCIE Report 56: Think child, think parent, think family: final evaluation report
  The mental health and wellbeing of children and adults in families where a parent has a mental health problem are closely linked. Not all families need health and social care services. However, those that do often strugg ...
  
  Publisher: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• At a glance 55: Think child, think parent, think family: Putting it into practice
  Meeting the needs of parents with mental health problems and their families raises practical, professional and organisational challenges for services. SCIE’s guide, Think child, think parent, think family (2009, revised ...
  
  Publisher: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Regulatory disorders in early childhood: Correlates in child behavior, parent–child relationship, and parental mental health
  According to the guidelines published by the German Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (2007), regulatory disorders of early childhood are characterized by a symptom triad, inclu ...
  
  Publisher: Infant Mental Health Journal
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• The experiences of parents in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
  Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a relatively new intervention that has been developed to help people with recurrent depression stay well in the long term. Although there is evidence that depression impacts ...
  
  Publisher: Clinical Child Psycholgy and Psychiatry
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Criminal conviction among offspring with parental history of mental disorder
  The children of parents with mental disorder are at risk of a range of adverse outcomes. The researchers sought to establish whether such risks extend to offending by examining rates of criminal conviction, including con ...
  
  Publisher: Psychological Medicine
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• eLearning: Parental mental health and families
  These elearning resources are freely available to all. They provide audio, video and interactive technology to assist in exploring the nature of parental mental health and its impact on families.
  
  Publisher: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Influence of reporting effects on the association between maternal depression and child autism spectrum disorder behaviors
  Maximizing measurement accuracy is an important aim in child development assessment and research. Parents are essential informants in the diagnostic process, and past research suggests that certain parental characteristi ...
  
  Publisher: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence in the 12 months after childbirth: a prospective pregnancy cohort study
  Objective: To examine maternal depressive symptoms during and after pregnancy and explore their relationship with intimate partner violence in the 12 months after birth.
  
  Publisher: BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Poor school performance in offspring of patients with schizophrenia: what are the mechanisms?
  The children of patients with schizophrenia exhibit poorer school performance compared with those of non-schizophrenic parents. The researchers aimed to elucidate the mechanisms behind this association. They found that g ...
  
  Publisher: Psychological Medicine
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Paternal depressive symptoms and child behavioral or emotional problems in the United States
  Background: The negative effects of maternal mental health problems on child health are well documented. In contrast, there is a profound paucity of information about paternal mental health's association with child healt ...
  
  Publisher: Pediatrics
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• The association between maternal serious psychological distress and child obesity at 3 years: a cross-sectional analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Data
  The prevalence of child obesity is increasing rapidly worldwide. Early childhood has been identified as a critical time period for the development of obesity. Maternal mental health and early life environment are crucial ...
  
  Publisher: Child: Care, Health and Development
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Suffering in silence: 70,000 reasons why help with postnatal depression has to be better
  This report presents new research from 4Children that shows that many families are suffering the consequences of postnatal depression in silence; that if and when they do seek help mothers are not getting the swift acces ...
  
  Publisher: 4Children
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Maternal experiences of childhood abuse and intimate partner violence: Psychopathology and functional impairment in clinical children and adolescents
  The current study examined the independent effects of mothers’ childhood abuse (CA) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on psychopathology and functional impairment in children; and the potential moderating and mediating ...
  
  Publisher: Child Abuse & Neglect
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• E-learning: Parental mental health and families
  This training package is designed to help social workers better understand the needs of parents with mental health problems and focuses on ensuring support across healthcare, social care and education is well co-ordinate ...
  
  Publisher: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Maternal postnatal depression and the development of depression in offspring up to 16 years of age
  This study found that the children of postnatally depressed mothers are at increased risk for depression by 16 years of age. This may be partially explained by within child vulnerability established in infancy and the ea ...
  
  Publisher: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Antenatal depression and offspring psychopathology: the influence of childhood maltreatment
  Background: Antenatal depression and childhood maltreatment have each been associated with offspring psychopathology, but have never been examined in the same sample.
  
  Publisher: The British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Parental depression and child outcomes – is marital conflict the missing link?
  Both maternal and paternal depression during the perinatal period are associated with adverse effects on child outcomes. Attention has started to focus on the mechanisms mediating these relationships. Marital conflict ma ...
  
  Publisher: Child: Care, Health and Development
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Antenatal domestic violence, maternal mental health and subsequent child behaviour: a cohort study
  Objective: To investigate the long-term impact of antenatal domestic violence on maternal psychiatric morbidity and child behaviour.
  
  Publisher: BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Changes in parental depression symptoms during family preservation services
  Parental depression symptoms often change over the course of child welfare family preservation and parenting services. This raises the question of whether certain processes in family preservation services might be associ ...
  
  Publisher: Child Abuse & Neglect
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Modern management of perinatal psychiatric disorders (book review)
  A review of the book, Modern management of perinatal psychiatric disorders' which 'provides an in-depth and up-to-date review on perinatal psychiatric disorders'.
  
  Publisher: Archives of Women's Mental Health
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Mental health promotion and mental illness prevention: the economic case
  This report presents the key findings of a project on the economic case for mental health promotion and prevention, based on a detailed analysis of costs and benefits for fifteen different interventions.
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Maternal anxiety symptoms and mother–infant self- and interactive contingency
  Associations of maternal self-report anxiety-related symptoms with mother–infant 4-month face-to-face play were investigated in 119 pairs. Attention, affect, spatial orientation, and touch were coded from split-screen vi ...
  
  Publisher: Infant Mental Health Journal
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Family Action's Perinatal Service
  1 in 6 pregnant women are affected by mental distress and mental health issues, if not dealt with, can affect the relationship between mother and child and impact on a child’s long-term development. This is why they are ...
  
  Publisher: Family Action
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• A population-based investigation of behavioural and emotional problems and maternal mental health: associations with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability
  While research indicates elevated behavioural and emotional problems in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and decreased well-being in their parents, studies do not typically separate out the contribution of A ...
  
  Publisher: The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Against All Odds campaign
  Family Action has launched the Against All Odds campaign, to raise awareness of parental mental health and the impact on children. The charity is calling for more family-focussed services and better welfare provision for ...
  
  Publisher: Family Action
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Maternal resolution of grief after preterm birth: implications for infant attachment security
  OBJECTIVE: This study explored the association between mothers' unresolved grief regarding their infant's preterm birth and infant-mother attachment security. We hypothesized that mothers with unresolved grief would be m ...
  
  Publisher: Pediatrics
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Issues for the safety and wellbeing of children in families with multiple and complex problems: the co-occurrence of domestic violence, parental substance misuse, and mental health problems
  Families with multiple and complex problems are no longer a marginal group in service delivery. In fact, they have become the primary client group of modern child protection services. The challenge for child protection s ...
  
  Publisher: National Child Protection Clearinghouse, Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Stress, cortisol and well-being of caregivers and children in home-based child care: a case for differential susceptibility
  This study examined whether children cared for by stressed caregivers show lower socio-emotional well-being and more stress, compared with children cared for by less stressed caregivers. Its findings point to differentia ...
  
  Publisher: Child: Care, Health and Development
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Children’s concerns about their parents’ health and well-being: researching with ChildLine Scotland
  This paper reports on collaborative research conducted with ChildLine Scotland, a free, confidential, telephone counselling service, using their database. Children’s concerns emerged within multi-layered calls in which t ...
  
  Publisher: Children & Society
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Think child, think parent, think family: a briefing for senior managers
  This briefing looks at how senior managers can improve the health, wellbeing and life chances of parents with mental health problems and their families. Better joined-up working between services for adults with mental he ...
  
  Publisher: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Maternal mental health and childrearing context in the development of children at 6, 18 and 36 months: a Taiwan birth cohort pilot study
  This study investigated a possible pathway of the childrearing context and maternal mental health at 6 months, and how these factors influence children's development at 6, 18 and 36 months. The study showed that 12 facto ...
  
  Publisher: Child: Care, Health and Development
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Parent stress and child behaviour among young children with type 1 diabetes
  The stress experienced by parents of young children with chronic illness appears to relate to their perception of their children's behaviour problems. Parents' experiences with developmentally normative misbehaviour may ...
  
  Publisher: Child: Care, Health and Development
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Helping children and social workers bear the unbearable
  Searching for answers has been central to Christine Bradley's career in therapeutic child care. The questions have been big ones: why are some children able to use the help and experiences offered to them while others ar ...
  
  Publisher: Community Care
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Maternal mood and sleep in children of women at risk for perinatal depression
  Few studies have examined relationships between perinatal depression and sleep in offspring beyond very early childhood. Eighty-five women classified as high risk for major depressive disorder during pregnancy completed ...
  
  Publisher: Archives of Women's Mental Health
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Health-Led Interventions in the Early Years to Enhance Infant and Maternal Mental Health: A Review of Reviews
  Background: Increasing recognition of the importance of maternal mental health and early parenting in optimising the later mental health of the child has given rise to new ways of working during the perinatal period.
  
  Publisher: Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Seasons for Growth
  Seasons for Growth: Grief Education is an early intervention programme that helps children and adults to cope with significant change or loss. It helps them to understand their emotions and how they are going to cope, an ...
  
  Publisher: Seasons for Growth
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• The Marcé society
  An international society for the understanding, prevention and treatment of mental illness related to childbearing. The principal aim of the society is to promote, facilitate and communicate about research into all aspec ...
  
  Publisher: The Marcé society
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Parental Learning Disability and Childrens Needs: Family Experiences and Effective Practice
  This study explored the needs of and outcomes for children who were living with learning disabled parents and had been referred to childrens social care services. Case files were studied, including 76 for children who we ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
  Published Date: 2007
  
  
• Think child, think parent, think family: a guide to parental mental health and child welfare (SCIE Guide 30)
  This guide is about working with parents who have mental health problems and their children. It provides guidance on policy and practice and makes recommendations for key areas of professional education, workforce develo ...
  
  Publisher: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
  Published Date: 2009