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Effects of perinatal mental disorders on the fetus and child
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Lancet, 2016.
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Abstract
- Perinatal mental disorders are associated with increased risk of psychological and developmental disturbances in children. However, these disturbances are not inevitable. In this Series paper, we summarise evidence for associations between parental disorders and offspring outcomes from fetal development to adolescence in high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries. We assess evidence for mechanisms underlying transmission of disturbance, the role of mediating variables (underlying links between parent psychopathology and offspring outcomes) and possible moderators (which change the strength of any association), and focus on factors that are potentially modifiable, including parenting quality, social (including partner) and material support, and duration of the parental disorder. We review research of interventions, which are mostly about maternal depression, and emphasise the need to both treat the parent's disorder and help with associated caregiving difficulties. We conclude with policy implications and underline the need for early identification of those parents at high risk and for more early interventions and prevention research, especially in socioeconomically disadvantaged populations and low-income countries.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Offspring
Developmental Disabilities
Psychological intervention
Risk Assessment
Fetal Development
Child of Impaired Parents
Pregnancy
Intervention (counseling)
Medicine
Humans
Psychiatry
Child
Parenting
business.industry
Incidence
Mental Disorders
Postpartum Period
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Prognosis
Mother-Child Relations
El Niño
Socioeconomic Factors
Child, Preschool
Educational Status
Female
business
Risk assessment
Postpartum period
Psychopathology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c2993cc843ec2c91d41e932f64148915