Sorrow's Web: Overcoming the Legacy of Maternal Depression

Casts light on the threat to the health & happiness of millions of women & their children posed by maternal depression. Draws on extensive research by experts in psychiatry, psychology, & child develop. to explain why & how children with a depressed mother may lose out on a rewarding social life, perform below their acad. potential, or fall victim to substance abuse. Chapters on each age-group pinpoint the symptoms & effects of a mother's depression on her children & offer advice on how to recognize these effects & so lessen or avoid them. Draws attention to depression's impact on marital relations & outlines a strategy for fathers that will help them & their children weather the crisis. Will help readers choose from the range of med. & psych. options.Sheffield, Anne is the author of 'Sorrow's Web: Overcoming the Legacy of Maternal Depression', published 2000 under ISBN 9780756792435 and ISBN 0756792436.