This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. This multi-site project is focused on studying the impact of treating parental depression on children's social and emotional adjustment. We continue to collaborate with researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Pennsylvania. Although originally projected to be a 5-year project, we received no-cost extensions from our funding agency for 3 years. Data collection is currently scheduled to be completed by 12/31/06. Two facts have guided our efforts in this study. First, offspring of depressed parents are at increased risk for psychopathology and associated dysfunction (Downey amp; Coyne, 1990; Gelfand amp; Teti, 1990; McCauley amp; Myers, 1992). Second, depression in adults can be successfully treated (Hollon et al., 1991). Our efforts have combined these two facts in an attempt to address the following fundamental questions: (a) To what extend does children's functioning change with improvements in their parent's depression? (b) Do these changes occur differentially depending on the type of treatment the parent received? To this end, we have now enrolled 82 families (one parent and one child between the ages of 7 and 16) at the Washington site - 48 depressed families and 34 matched control families. While depressed families were originally recruited through the Treatments for Depression Project at the University of Washington where the parent was enrolled in treatment, with IRB approval we subsequently took on our own recruitment of depressed families through radio ads, school mailings, and advertisements in child related publications throughout the greater Seattle area. With this, we provided depressed parents with treatment through the Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic at the University of Washington with Amy Wagner, Ph.D. Matched control families were recruited through the same means (e.g. radio advertisements, school mailings, and advertisements in child related publications).
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