Trajectories of preschool disorders to full DSM
depression at school age and early adolescence: Continuity of preschool depression
Not exact matches
He grew up in poverty during the Great
Depression and dropped out of
school at age 16.
When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high
school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are
at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia,
depression, more rapid
aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)
«These findings provide strong support for Family Based Interpersonal Psychotherapy as an effective treatment for
depression in children between the
ages of 7 - 12,» said Laura J. Dietz, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and psychiatry
at the University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine and principal investigator of the study.
For this study, researchers
at the University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine randomly assigned 42 preadolescents (
ages 7 - 12) with
depression to one of two therapy conditions: FB - IPT, an intervention that included parents in the child's treatment and focused on improving family and peer relationships, or to child - centered therapy (CCT), a supportive therapy for children.
New research shows that kids whose parents were diagnosed with
depression sometime during the child's lifetime are more likely to perform poorly in
school at the
age of 16.
At the
ages of 6 - 7, when children are transitioning to starting
school, 14 % have high levels of emotional problems, including
depression and anxiety.
Back pain, arthritis, and
depression become more common with
age — and that can make sex challenging, says Mary Jane Minkin, a clinical professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences
at the Yale
School of Medicine.
At South Sound, I specialize in helping children and young adults
ages 4 - 24 who are having difficulty with adjustment, behavior,
school success, anxiety,
depression or trauma.
A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal
age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high
school, high
school graduation, beyond high
school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child
age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal
depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed
at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day
at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).
Measures administered to children
at baseline post-treatment, 6 - and 12 - month follow - ups included the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders for
School -
age Children - Present and Lifetime Version (K - SADS - PL - PTSD) PTSD subscale, Children's
Depression Inventory (CDI), State - Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC), and the Children's Attributions and Perceptions Scale (CAPS).
Depression was assessed with the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for
School -
Aged Children (K - SADS), Beck
Depression Inventory for Youth (BDI - Y), and Children's
Depression Inventory (CDI)
at pretreatment, posttreatment and annual follow - up assessments.
Participants were reassessed
at 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years following treatment, using the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for
School -
Age Children (K - SADS - E), the Child
Depression Inventory (CDI), and the Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 4 - 18 (CBCL / 4 -18).
These included maternal
age at delivery, parity (1, 2, ≥ 3 children), socioeconomic position (grouped into four categories: 1) unskilled / semiskilled manual; 2) skilled manual / nonmanual; 3) managerial / technical; and 4) professional), maternal education (< O level: indicating no qualification; O level: indicating completion of
school examinations
at age 16; and > O level: indicating completion of college or university education
at or after
age 18), maternal smoking during first trimester in pregnancy (yes / no), housing tenure (mortgaged, subsidised renting, private renting), income (measured in quintiles), and maternal depressive symptoms measured using the Edinburgh Postnatal
Depression Scale [40]
at 32 weeks gestation
Postnatal
depression, particularly in disadvantaged communities, has been shown to be associated with impairments in the child's growth, 36 and his / her social, emotional, and cognitive development.37 By
school age, children of women who suffer postnatal
depression are
at risk for showing externalising and internalising behavioural problems, and they have lower social skills and academic achievement.38 A key way in which maternal
depression affects children's development is by disrupting the mother - infant relationship as well as routine parenting functions, 37 and two studies have shown that HIV infection is associated with similar disturbances in mother - child interactions.13, 39 Currently, no studies in the HIV literature have examined maternal psychosocial functioning in relation to mother - child interactions or child development.
The most noteworthy programmes, for conduct disorder targeted
at - risk children in the early years using parent training or child social skills training for anxiety, employed universal CBT training in
school -
age children; and for
depression, targeted
at - risk
school -
age children, also using CBT