Treating Parental Depression Benefits Children

At our clinic at the Vermont Center for Children, Youth, and Families, one unique component of our child psychiatry evaluations is the provision of also assessing mental health problems in the parents, using validated rating scales.  This element was included in the face of mounting data showing that successful treatment of psychiatric disorders in parents […]

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Mental Health of Fathers Also Matter to Their Children

With Father’s Day coming this Sunday, it seems appropriate to mention a recent article that likely confirms something most of us believe yet hasn’t been documented as much as one might expect.  To date, the vast majority of data linking parental mental health to child mental health comes from the study of mothers.  Fathers are […]

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