Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 379-389 , April 2008

Change in Child Psychopathology With Improvement in Parental Depression: A Systematic Review

  • MEREDITH L. GUNLICKS, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Dr. Meredith L. Gunlicks, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 74, New York, NY 10032;.
    • ,
  • MYRNA M. WEISSMAN, Ph.D.

,Accepted 14 November 2007.

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 This research was supported by grants R01MH063852 (M. Weissman, P.I.) and P30MH071478 (D. Shaffer, P.I.) from the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Gunlicks is supported by an Institutional Research Training Grant T32MH016434. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Mental Health or the National Institutes of Health.This article is the subject of an editorial by Dr. Stephen P. Hinshaw in this issue.Disclosure: Dr. Weissman has received research funding from Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline, as well as the National Institute for Mental Health, and receives royalties from Oxford University Press, the American Psychiatric Association, and Perseus Press. Dr. Gunlicks reports no conflicts of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(09)62393-5

doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181640805

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 379-389 , April 2008

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