Sorrow's Web: Overcoming the Legacy of Maternal Depression - Hardcover

Anne Sheffield

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9780756792435: Sorrow's Web: Overcoming the Legacy of Maternal Depression

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ISBN 10: 0756792436 ISBN 13: 9780756792435

Publisher: Diane Pub Co, 2000

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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.

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"With equal compassion for mothers and children, Sheffield integrates research with riveting interviews, which makes for a compelling read . . . A hopeful book with a rallying cry for early intervention."--Martha Manning, author of Undercurrents

"Offers important help to depressed mothers . . . She has beautifully and eloquently captured recent advances in the study of depression and provides vital practical advice for both sufferers and those around them."--William Beardslee, M.D., Garnder Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

"A remarkable book based on careful research. Going beyond simple 'feel good' solutions, Sorrow's Web message is skillfully couched in elegant prose and poignant personal history. Highly recommended for depressed parents, child 'survivors,' and professionals alike."--Peter S. Jensen, M.D., director Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health, Columbia University

About the Author

Anne Sheffield, formerly director of development for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, is also author of the award-winning book How You Can Survive When They're Depressed. She lives in New York City.

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