Sentences with phrase «age children of depressed mothers»

Teachers judged elementary school - age children of depressed mothers to have low popularity (Goodman et al. 1993).

Various studies have shown that school - age children of depressed mothers display impaired adaptive functioning, including internalizing and externalizing problems.

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• Where mothers had been depressed AND the fathers had worked long hours (particularly at weekends) in the first two years of their baby's life, this predicted poor developmental outcomes for their child through to age 10, especially among boys (Letourneau et al, 2009).

Feinberg et al (under review) and Feinberg and Kan (2008) have found that when the couple are supported to develop positive «co-parenting», mothers are less depressed, boys exhibit fewer «externalising» behaviour problems at ages three and seven, and children of both sexes and at both these ages, exhibit fewer «internalizing» problems.

According to The National Council on the Developing Child Working Paper on Maternal Depression, upwards of 20 percent of mothers suffer from feeling depressed at some time during their lives — and often when their children are still of a young age.

The one exception was the study by Abela et al, 32 which did not find increased difficulties with self - esteem or dependency in children aged 6 — 14 years of mothers with BPD, compared with children of depressed mothers.

Abela et al32 studied children aged 6 — 14 years and found that those with a mother with BPD had experienced more depression (45 % had suffered a major depressive episode), than a sample of children whose mothers were currently depressed.

Finally, in the study by Barnow et al, 19 children (aged 11 — 18 years) showed excessive harm - avoidance, in comparison with children of depressed mothers and healthy mothers.

Research indicates that depressed mothers, especially when their depression is chronic, are less sensitive with their infants and toddlers, play with and talk to their children less, and provide less supportive and age - appropriate limit setting and discipline than non-depressed mothers.4, 8,9 When mothers report more chronic depressive symptoms, their children are more likely to evidence insecure attachment relationships with them, show less advanced language and cognitive development, be less cooperative, and have more difficulty controlling anger and aggression.8, 9 Lower levels of maternal sensitivity and engagement explain some of these findings.

This study compared early school - aged children whose mothers were depressed during the child's infancy with early school - aged children from a community sample, in terms of a comprehensive set of developmental outcomes, controlling for associated risk factors.

Children of depressed mothers appeared more passively noncompliant, with less mature expressions of age - appropriate autonomy [19].

Moreover, children of postnatally depressed mothers showed lower left frontal EEG activity at age of 1 - to 3 - months [21], through to 6 [22] and 13 - to -15 months [19].