Sorrow’s Web: Overcoming the Legacy of Maternal Depression

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Year: 2000
Pages: 285
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 684870851

Product Code: 756792436

Description

Anne Sheffield (au). Casts light on the threat to the health & happiness of millions of women & their children posed by maternal depression. Draws on extensive research by experts in psychiatry, psychology, & child develop. to explain why & how children with a depressed mother may lose out on a rewarding social life, perform below their acad. potential, or fall victim to substance abuse. Chapters on each age-group pinpoint the symptoms & effects of a mother’s depression on her children & offer advice on how to recognize these effects & so lessen or avoid them. Draws attention to depression’s impact on marital relations & outlines a strategy for fathers that will help them & their children weather the crisis. Will help readers choose from the range of med. & psych. options.

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