Children of Depressed Parents Mechanisms of Risk and Implications for Treatment

Sherryl H. Goodman received her PhD in clinical psychology in 1978 from the University of Waterloo. She is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is also director of the Clinical Training Program in Psychology. Her research interests center around the field of developmental psychopathology and, more specifically, the mechanisms by which depression may be transmitted from mothers to their children. Dr. Goodman is also interested in the epidemiology of child and adolescent psychopathology, with a particular focus on risk and protective factors. She is currently directing research on mother -- infant interaction in association with mothers' treatment for postpartum depression, children's understanding of sadness in others, the development of a measure of children's perception of parental sadness, the role of fathers in families with depressed mothers, and maternal depression as an early life stress for infants. Dr. Goodman is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and associate editor of the Journal of Family Psychology Ian H. Gotlib received his PhD in clinical psychology in 1981 from the University of Waterloo. He is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University in Stanford, California, and is director of the Stanford Mood and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory. In general, Dr. Gotlib's research examines information-processing styles of depressed children, adolescents, and adults; patterns of brain activation of depressed individuals in response to different emotional stimuli; and the emotional, cognitive, physiological, and behavioral functioning of children of depressed mothers. Dr. Gotlib is currently overseeing a project examining the mechanisms of transmission of risk factors for depression and anxiety from mothers to daughters and the identification and psychobiological assessment of depressed individuals who are characterized by strong negative biases in their cognitive functioning. Dr. Gotlib is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Psychopathological AssociationGoodman, Sherryl H. is the author of 'Children of Depressed Parents Mechanisms of Risk and Implications for Treatment', published 2002 under ISBN 9781557988751 and ISBN 1557988757.