Depression Effects On Child Development

The first stage is encountering terror; this can be described by terrible anxiety attack, fogginess, and obsessive thinking (McEwen & Wills, 2010). The second stage is dying of self; this can be described as isolation, thinking of suicide, and unrealness (McEwen & Wills, 2010). The third stage is struggling to survive; this can be described as looking for comfort, praying for relief, and battling oneself (McEwen & Wills, 2010). Lastly, stage four is regaining control; this can be described as making changes to recover from lost time and achieving recovery (McEwen & Wills, 2010). In 2000, Beck teamed up with Robert Gable and developed a scale to help improve the detection of postpartum depression; the scale is called the postpartum depression screening scale (PDSS) (McEwen & Wills, 2010). The purpose for the scale is to help nurses identify the

This topic came from the thought that depression is something that all of us have experienced at some point in our lives. It focuses on adolescents because during this period we are young and vulnerable and may not know how to cope with situations or circumstances that may lead us into depression. Factors such as going through puberty and issues at home with parents can all cause depression. This paper will talk about what is depression, how families can affect depression in the child, and how depression can lead to long term effects.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) categorizes postpartum depression as a subtype to major depression and has specifiers to the onset to categorize an episode of major depression that begins 4 weeks postpartum. According to the (DSM-IV) a person who suffers from major depressive disorder must have depression symptoms such as either have a depressed mood or a loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities. This mood must represent a change from the person 's normal social, occupational, educational or other important functioning. These functions must also be negatively impaired by the change in mood.

Stage 1 involves disbelief that they have been diagnosed with a life-ending disease. They oftentimes become very angry and feel guilty as though they have done something wrong to receive such a diagnosis. Stage 2 involves depression, which usually occurs a few weeks after the diagnosis and typically lasts the duration of the person’s life. Stage 3 is acceptance. Acceptance that they are at the end of their life, and everything as they know it soon will be gone. The love for their child, family, and friends, their goals and aspirations, the experiences that never happened will all soon be stripped away and there is nothing they can do about it. As this numbing realization of death drowns and constantly presents itself to the person suffering, they are constantly reminded that whatever they are currently doing, whether it be going to their child’s soccer game on the weekend, eating their favorite food, doing their favorite hobby, or sleeping next to their loved one at night, could possibly be their last time ever doing so. As this unfolds, do not forget that they are experiencing torturing, blinding, life-taking pain; and all they want is for only a brief moment of tranquility, however the evilness of their disease will not grant it to them. After months of suffering, when the pills stop working, all hope for a miracle is long gone, and they can’t even get out of bed

The assigned article for this week was ‘Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?’ by Pamela Paulaug. As the title told, the article was about young children, such as preschoolers’ depression. The article can be mainly broken into three big chunks: there was a boy named Kiran and his case was introduced as an example; controversy over preschoolers’ depression among psychologists, psychiatrists, and researchers; its best treatment for young children so far known.

There are times when new mothers are misdiagnosed and are given a lesser form of this depression. This is called having the baby blues, which is when a new mother experience’s mood swings, and anxiety. These symptoms can last one or two weeks after giving birth, where postpartum depression can continue on for months at a time. Even with baby blues having such a shorter time frame even after 2 weeks’ these new mothers are not being diagnosed correctly. In Mental Heath of Teen Mom Matters, Shiloh gives her experience “My son was crying and it was like the noise of scratching a chalkboard” (Reese p. 1) A new mom can face all these difficulties and my feel as though they do not have a maternal attachment to their

Postpartum depression is the most common psychological complexity that occurs after childbirth (Bakhshizadeh, 2013). This form of depression has been reported to be as high as 20% (Asltoghiria, 2012). The mother will begin to experience postpartum depression between the birth of the infant and 6 to 8 weeks later (Bhati, 2015). Depending on the person, the typical length of postpartum depression ranges anywhere from two weeks to two years in length (Posmontier, 2010). It is thought that postpartum depression affects mothers of multiples at a greater incidence than mothers whom birth just one child, and the chance increases with the number of children in a multiple birth. Evidence shows that the older the mother’s age at the time of birth, shows there is no notable increase in the risk of being diagnosed with postpartum depression. Another factor that is thought to have an influence on the diagnosis of postpartum depression is income within the household. A study shows that as income goes down, the risk of having

Following on from attachment, a further developmental influence of depression is bullying. In 2013, Howard and Donnelly stated that bullying was an “intentional negative behaviour that typically occurs with some repetitiveness and is directed against a person who has difficulty defending himself or herself” (cited by Olweus, 2011, p.151).

Postpartum depression is more serious than postpartum blues and occurs in about 10 to 20 percent of new mothers, and is detected anywhere between the first three and six months after the birth of the child, but may not affect the mother until up to a year after the child is born. Symptoms of this condition include: sadness, loss of interest in normal activities, guilt, anxiety, tiredness, feeling like you"re not good enough, impaired concentration or memory, over concern for the baby or none at all, inability to cope, despondency or despair, hopelessness, panic attacks, thoughts of suicide, bizarre or strange thoughts, or feeling " 'like you are going crazy.""(www.chss.iup.edu).

It is becoming more recognized and well- known around the world that the mental well-being of one’s parents largely affects the development and or the emotional and mental states of oneself. Research is becoming much more widespread and researchers could make important recommendations on how to intervene in the lives of children with parents suffering from mental illness to best prevent harm to their health and well-being as they grow. It has been found that the most common mental illnesses among people of child-bearing age are anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. Most policy however deals with the care of children whose parents must be hospitalized due to their conditions. Much of the current research though aims to show that even those which do not require extreme medical intervention can impact children physically, emotionally, socially, cognitively, etcetera.

The researchers advance the scientific knowledge base by adding to the current knowledge, contributed to the theory, and met the qualifications for a valuable research (Capella, 2016). According to Reising et al., (2016), the study was to address parental depression, social economic status (SES), and community disadvantage for internal and external issues in children and adolescents. Also, taking to account that parental negligence is also a factor that is connected to the internal and external problems in children and adolescents. In addition, concurring to the previous research (Fear, et al., 2009) (Flynn & Rudolph 2011), (Lewis, Collishaw, Thapar, & Gordon, 2014), (McCarthy, Downes, & & Sherman), & (Sondheimer, MD, 2010), all came into

A human developmentalist, by the name of John Bradshaw once said, “Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were”. From the moment an embryo is implanted into a mother’s womb, human life is dependent on the attachment of a caregiver, someone to provide it the necessary nutrients and nurturement for a healthy development. Over the course of time, researchers have conducted countless studies to determine whether which of the two was more vital, the fundamental necessities such as food and water or the attachment to a caregiver, for a typical development of not just the human species, but all mammals. However, consistently results have proven to show that attachment has played a vital role in the

Loss of control is broken down into four stages: encountering terror, dying of self, struggling to survive, and regaining control (Beck, 1993). Beck, 2002, has developed two screening tools (Postpartum Depression Screening Scale and Postpartum Depression Inventory System) to evaluate risk factors and symptoms. Encountering terror is an initial response to feeling out of control, described as being trapped with no means of escape (Beck, 1993). Stage II is highlighted by a reported feeling of loss of former self and feeling internally void of caring or emotion, likened to that of a robot (Beck,1993). Struggling to survive is recognized by the inability to carry on activities of daily living, including eating and bathing. This is the stage where many seek assistance and

The purpose of Daphna Hernandez analysis is to understand if there is any correlation with fathers that come and in and out of their lives and with the level of stress their daughter endures. Depression is said to be a disorder that affects the body, mood, and the way of thinking which is stated in Depressive Disorders by psychology today. Depression can have negative consequences to the children’s well-being. A child that has depression can have poor school performance, can be law–breaker, and have low self-esteem. As I have learned in psychology 100, people need to have the sense belonging and love. Children need to be loved both by their fathers and mother. If the father is not present is gives a feeling of emptiness. Hernandez discovered and concluded that the having a father around even for a little gives child the sense of belonging and love. It helps them not developed any depression disorder.

The National Center for Children in Poverty (2016) reported “about 15 million children in the United States – 21% of all children – live in families with incomes below the federal poverty threshold, a measurement that has been shown to underestimate the needs of families.” Poverty has a tremendous effect on children. Children who live in poverty experience several mental, emotional, and physical effects, which later influence their academic achievements (Evans & Cassell, 2013). Children in poverty qualify for government assistance programs; however, some of these programs are scarce and tend to have long waitlists. This only makes it harder for children in poverty to benefit from these resources. This research is design to explain how poverty