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GENERAL PSYCHIATRISTS AND THEIR PATIENTS’ CHILDREN: ASSESSMENT AND PREVENTION

Authors: Jongil Yuh, Ph.D., Kathleen A. Maloy, J.D., Ph.D., Kyle A. Kenney, M.P.H., David Reiss, M.D.

Published in: Psychiatric Quarterly | Issue 2/2006

General psychiatrists frequently treat adult patients with Major Depressive Disorder. Ordinarily, these psychiatrists focus solely on the treatment of their adult patients. However, new data suggest that treatment efforts might be doubly rewarded if psychiatrists tended to the children of these patients as well. This article reviews the literature on children whose parents have Major Depressive Disorder, and on preventive interventions for their children. We also review challenges to funding interventions of this sort based on systematic interviews of public and private insurance providers. We suggest a new standard of care for depressed patients: reliable screening of the patients’ children for both risk of disorder and resilience as well as referral of these children, where indicated, for prevention services. We review obstacles to this standard of care: the professional reluctance of general psychiatrists to work with children and the lack of screening and preventive services for these children in most practice settings.

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Title: GENERAL PSYCHIATRISTS AND THEIR PATIENTS’ CHILDREN: ASSESSMENT AND PREVENTION
Authors: Jongil Yuh, Ph.D.
Kathleen A. Maloy, J.D., Ph.D.
Kyle A. Kenney, M.P.H.
David Reiss, M.D.
Publication date: 01-06-2006
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Psychiatric Quarterly / Issue 2/2006
Print ISSN: 0033-2720
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6709
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11126-006-9000-4

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