Main description:

"Depression runs in families." Above all, the goal of this
book is to come to some conclusions about the meaning of
that simple assertion, which has a far from simple ex-
planation of meaning. This book is designed to address some
of the gaps in previous research on depressive disorders in
the family context: the sheer numbers of people with
affective disorders marks them as our most common
psychiatric problem.

Contents:

1 Studies of Children of Depressed Parents.- 2 Methods of the Current Study.- 3 Diagnoses and Dysfunction in Children at Risk.- 4 Vulnerability to Depression: The Role of Children's Cognitions.- 5 Family Stress.- 6 Parent-Child Relationships and Depression.- 7 Familial and Parental Clinical Characteristics.- 8 Risk and Resilience.- 9 Summary and Implications: Understanding Depression in Families at Risk.- References.