Depression Runs in Families The Social Context of Risk and Resilienc
"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
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Depression Runs in Families The Social Context of Risk and Resilience in Children of Depressed Mothers
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Constance Hammen Department of Psychology University of California Los Angeles, CA 90024-1563 USA Series Editor: Lauren B. Alloy Department of Psychology Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA
With five illustrations. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hammen, Constance L. Depression runs in families: The social context of risk and resilience in children of depressed mothers 1 Constance Hammen. p. cm. - (Series in psychopathology) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN- I3 978-1-4684-6412-2 e-ISBN- I3 978-1-4684-6410-8 DOL 10.1007/978-1-4684-6410-8
1. Children of depressed persons-Mental health. 2. Depression, Mental-Etiology. 3. Mother and child. 4. Depressed personsFamily relationships. I. Title. II. Series. [DNLM: 1. Child of Impaired Parents. 2. Depressive Disorder. 3. Depressive Disorder-etiology. 4. Depressive Disorder-in infancy & childhood. 5. Family. 6. Parent-Child Relations. WM 171 H224d) RC537.H3 1991 616.85'27-dc20 DNLM/DLC for Library of Congress 90-10460 Printed on acid-free paper.
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Series in Psychopathology Series Editor Lauren B. Alloy
Series in Psychopathology Editor: Lauren B. Alloy Published Volumes:
Depression Runs in Families: The Social Context of Risk and Resilience in Children of Depressed Mothers
Forthcoming: Hopelessness Depression
Neurobehavioral Systems, Personality, and Psychopathology
Acknowledgments
The research project that this book is based on came to be called the UCLA Family Stress Project. It began in the early 1980s as an attempt to study the childhood origins of depression. It was the collaborative effort of many people. It would not have been undertaken at all without the instigation, enthusiasm, and planning of then-graduate students David Gordon and Carol Jaenicke. Later, when the original enthusiasm gave way to the sheer amazement at the magnitude of the task we had undertaken, Dorli Burge and Cheri Adrian made it continue. Involved at every level
