Impact of Depression and Childhood Trauma in Mothers Receiving Home Visitation

Autor/inn/en	Ammerman, Robert T.; Shenk, Chad E.; Teeters, Angelique R.; Noll, Jennie G.; Putnam, Frank W.; Van Ginkel, Judith B.
Titel	Impact of Depression and Childhood Trauma in Mothers Receiving Home Visitation
Quelle	In: Journal of Child and Family Studies, 21 (2012) 4, S.612-625 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1062-1024
DOI	10.1007/s10826-011-9513-9
Schlagwörter	Low Income; Mothers; Home Visits; Child Rearing; Parent Child Relationship; Family Environment; Social Networks; Depression (Psychology); Child Development; Outcomes of Treatment; Program Effectiveness; Infants; Counseling Effectiveness; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Adult Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Niedriglohn; Mother; Mutter; Hausbesuch; Kindererziehung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Familienmilieu; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Kindesentwicklung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung
Abstract	Research has documented the deleterious effects of maternal depression and childhood trauma on parenting and child development. There are high rates of both depression and childhood trauma in new mothers participating in home visitation programs, a prevention approach designed to optimize mother and child outcomes. Little is known about the impacts of maternal depression and childhood trauma on parenting in the context of home visitation. This study contrasted depressed and non-depressed mothers enrolled in the first year of a home visitation program on parenting stress, quality of home environment, social network, and psychiatric symptoms. Mothers were young, low income, and predominantly unmarried. Results indicated that depressed mothers displayed impairments in parenting, smaller and less robust social networks, and increased psychiatric symptoms relative to their non-depressed counterparts. Path analyses for the full sample revealed a path linking childhood trauma, depression, and parenting stress. Path analyses by group revealed several differential relationships between dimensions of social network and parenting. Number of embedded networks, namely the number of different domains in which the mother is actively interacting with others, was associated with lowered parenting stress among non-depressed mothers and increased parenting stress in their depressed counterparts with childhood trauma histories. In depressed mothers, social network size was associated with lower levels of parenting stress but decreased quality of the home environment, whereas number of embedded networks was positively related to quality of the home environment. Implications of findings for home visitation programs are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10