ReviewChild development2017
Evidence-Based Interventions for Depressed Mothers and Their Young Children.
Review in Child development, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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80 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Psychosocial adversity and executive functions in children and adolescents: a systematic review of mediating and moderating influences of parenting behaviors.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Parenting as a Mediator of Associations between Depression in Mothers and Children's Functioning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2020Pooled it
- Maternal depression in Latinas and child socioemotional development: A systematic review.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- Effects of M-DEPTH model of depression care on maternal depression, functioning, and HIV care adherence, and infant developmental over eighteen months post-partum: results from a cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Trial
- The Building Regulation in Dual-Generations Program (BRIDGE): A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Pilot of a Parenting Program for Depressed Mothers of Preschoolers, Matched with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Trial
- A positive parenting program to enhance positive affect in children of previously depressed mothers.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2022Trial
- A Randomized Control Trial of Using Baby Books to Reduce New Mothers' Feelings of Stress and Depression.Maternal and child health journal · 2021Trial
- Randomized trial of promoting first relationships for new mothers who received community mental health services in pregnancy.Developmental psychology · 2021Trial
- Effects of a community health worker delivered intervention on maternal depressive symptoms in rural Tanzania.Health policy and planning · 2021Trial
- Minding the Gatekeepers: Referral and Recruitment of Postpartum Mothers with Depression into a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mobile Internet Parenting Intervention to Improve Mood and Optimize Infant Social Communication Outcomes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
- Effectiveness of a peer-delivered, psychosocial intervention on maternal depression and child development at 3 years postnatal: a cluster randomised trial in Pakistan.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2020Trial
- Growth trajectories of parental emotion socialization and child adjustment following a military parenting intervention: A randomized controlled trial.Developmental psychology · 2020Trial
- Improving Maternal Representations in High-Risk Mothers: A Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Mom Power Parenting Intervention.Child psychiatry and human development · 2018Trial
- Low Caregiver-Child Positive Escalation in Childhood Predicts Late Adolescent BPD.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Helping financially under-resourced unmarried mothers move forward and flourish: Feasibility findings from an innovative coaching-centered place-based initiative.American journal of community psychology · 2026Article
- Parent-child communication and third generation's difficulties: Roles of parental depression and self-efficacy.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2026Article
- Maternal depressive symptomatology and its association with early child development in socioeconomically deprived Mexican households.Discover mental health · 2026Article
- Community-identified priorities for parenting and parental mental health in coastal Ghana: Formative insights to shape a multi-component intervention.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- The prevalence of postpartum depression and associated characteristics in fathers of newborns in Yazd City in 2023: A cross-sectional study.International journal of reproductive biomedicine · 2025Article
- Pathways of intergenerational transmission of depression: The role of the Fast Track intervention.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
20 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Depression in mothers is a significant risk factor for the development of maladjustment in children. This article focuses on modifiable risk processes linking depression in mothers and adaptation in their young children (i.e., infancy through preschool age). First, the authors present evidence of the efficacy of interventions for reducing the primary source of risk: maternal depression. Second, they describe a central mechanism-parenting behaviors-underlying the relation between maternal depression and children's adjustment. Third, the authors recommend two different integrated interventions that successfully treat mothers' depression and enhance parenting skills with infants and young children. Finally, the authors note the possible need for supplementary interventions to address severity and comorbidity of mothers' depression, barriers to engaging in treatment, and the sustainability of program benefits.
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