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ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2025

The Impact of Parental Mental Health Diagnoses, Trauma, and Coping Mechanisms on Their Children's Well-Being.

Danika DesRoches, Manuel Mattheisen, Kerstin Jessica Plessen, Anne Katrine Pagsberg, Silvia Marin-Dragu, Matt Orr, Sandra Melanie Meier

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Article in Child psychiatry and human development, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Danika DesRochesDepartment of Psychology/Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Manuel MattheisenDepartment of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Kerstin Jessica PlessenDivision of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Lausanne and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Anne Katrine PagsbergChild and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital - Mental Health Services CPH, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Silvia Marin-DraguDepartment of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Matt OrrDepartment of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Sandra Melanie MeierDepartment of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. Sandra.meier@iwk.nshealth.ca.
Dalhousie University · CAMental Health Services · DKUniversity of Lausanne · CH

Funding

Canada Foundation for Innovation 38835CIHR 1024586
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The transgenerational effects of parental diagnoses, trauma and coping mechanisms on children's internalizing symptoms are not well understood. In a population-based study of 933 families combining data from a web-based survey and the Danish registers, we used an online survey of parents to examine how parental diagnoses, trauma and coping mechanisms affect the development of internalizing symptoms in children aged 6 to 18 years. To account for attrition, we used inverse probability weights in our regression models. Children of parents diagnosed with depression or anxiety displayed more internalizing symptoms than children of controls. Similarly, children of parents who experienced multiple trauma had significantly more internalizing symptoms. In contrast, we observed significantly fewer internalizing symptoms among children of parents who felt they could cope well. The protective effect of parental coping persisted even after adjusting for parental diagnoses or trauma. Interventions boosting parental coping mechanisms might help to prevent the development of internalizing symptoms in children even among patients who have been diagnosed with depression or anxiety or experienced a high trauma load.

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Adaptation, PsychologicalAnxietyChild of Impaired ParentsDepressionParentsPsychological TraumaAdolescentAdultChildDenmarkFemaleHumansMaleRegistriesChildrenCopingInternalizing DisordersParentTransgenerationalTrauma

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PMID37957447
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