Assessing depression in community samples of children using self-report inventories: Ethical considerations

Burbach, Daniel J.; Farha, Jennifer G.; Thorpe, Joseph S.

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“…All families who participated in the study were given a $20.00 stipend. These and all other procedures utilized were consistent with previously published ethical guidelines concerning the study of depressive symptomatology in non-clinic populations (Burbach, Farha & Thorpe, 1986).…”

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Parental Bonding and Depressive Disorders in Adolescents

Burbach

Kashani

Rosenberg

1989

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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The present exploratory study was designed to determine whether a sample of depressed adolescents differed from demographically similar samples of normal and non-depressed psychiatric controls as a function of their perceived patterns of parental bonding. All research participants were recruited from the general population. Diagnoses were based on a structured diagnostic interview keyed to DSM-III criteria. Parental bonding was assessed using the Parental Bonding Instrument [PBI; Parker, G. Tupling, H. & Brown, L.B. (1979). A parental bonding instrument. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 52, 1-10]. The results of this study suggest that parental bonding plays an important but non-specific role in the occurrence of adolescent psychopathology.

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Parental Bonding and Depressive Disorders in Adolescents

Burbach

Kashani

Rosenberg

1989

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…The last two criteria were included because involvement in special education or unmedicated attentional problems could create barriers to participation in the child coping component if assigned to the dual-component condition (parenting group plus child-coping group). Because the intervention was preventive and thus not designed to address significant clinical problems, families were excluded and referred for treatment if the child reported suicidal ideation, had a score higher than 17 on the Children's Depression Inventory (Burbach et al, 1986; Kovacs, 1985), or scored above the 97 th percentile on the Externalizing subscale of the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach, 1991). …”

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Predictors of Enrollment and Retention in a Preventive Parenting Intervention for Divorced Families

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Participation rates in parenting programs are typically low, severely limiting the public health significance of these interventions. We examined predictors of parenting program enrollment and retention in a sample of 325 divorced mothers. Predictors included intervention timing and maternal reports of child, parent, family, and sociocultural risk factors. In multivariate analyses, child maladjustment and family income-to-needs positively predicted enrollment, and higher maternal education and recruitment near the time of the divorce predicted retention. Findings have implications for the optimal timing of preventive parenting programs for divorcing families and point to the importance of examining predictors of enrollment and retention simultaneously.Parenting skills programs have proven to be effective in preventing the onset and escalation of child mental health and substance use problems (e.g., Lochman & van den Steenhoven, 2002). Unfortunately, most parents decline participation in preventive parenting programs (Heinrichs et al., 2005;. The effectiveness of a disseminated intervention is a function of both the program's effect size per participant and the target population's participation rate (Braver & Smith, 1996). When an intervention produces a large effect but has a small participation rate, its population impact is likely to be small, consequently providing little public health benefit. Although efficacy and participation contribute equally to population effectiveness, an abundance of research has been devoted to the former with little study of the latter. Thus, to increase the public health significance of preventive parenting programs, prevention scientists need to identify predictors of participation and develop and test theory-based strategies to increase participation.Two aspects of participation are particularly important to study. Predictors of enrollment are important to identify, because very little research has focused on this aspect of participation, despite the finding that only a minority of the targeted population enrolls in preventive parenting programs (Heinrichs et al., 2005;. Attention to predictors of retention is also important, because attendance level has been shown to mediate parenting program effects on parent and child outcomes (Brody et al., 2006;Reid et al., 2004).Maximizing enrollment and retention may be especially critical for families at risk for child maladjustment problems. Researchers have identified a variety of risk factors (e.g., poverty, early childhood aggression, parental psychopathology, rejecting parenting) that increase the likelihood that children will develop mental health and substance use problems (Mrazek & Haggerty, 1994). Recently, several researchers have found significant baseline risk by program interaction effects indicating that children at risk for later problems benefit more from NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript preventive parenting programs than those at low risk, with risk defined in a variety ...

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“…All attempters identified their behavior as a suicide attempt and all attempts were by self-poisoning. Because of ethical (Burbach, Farha, & Thorpe, 1986) and legal (Monahan, 1993) considerations, only attempters who were engaged in a therapeutic relationship at the time of the interview were included in the study.…”

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The Dependency Needs And Perceived Availability And Adequacy Of Relationships In Female Adolescent Suicide Attempters

Bettridge

Favreau

1995

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Traditional theories about female adolescent suicide attempters view them as experiencing difficulty in achieving adequate separation‐individuation. However, recent work on female adolescence suggests that achieving greater interdependency within relationships rather than increased independence from them is an important goal for nonclinical nonsuicidal female adolescents. We investigated both dependency needs and the perceived availability and adequacy of relationships in 21 female adolescent attempters and 23 nonattempters. Dependency needs did not significantly differentiate suicide attempters from nonattempters. Attempters, however, did report both a smaller social network and fewer intimate relationships than nonattempters, as well as less satisfaction with these relationships. These preliminary results suggest that more research is required to establish whether dependency needs are indeed causally related to the female adolescents' suicide attempts. Future research should also investigate other risk factors such as relational dissatisfaction, familial suicide attempts, and abuse.

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Assessing depression in community samples of children using self-report inventories: Ethical considerations

Cited by 24 publications

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Parental Bonding and Depressive Disorders in Adolescents

Parental Bonding and Depressive Disorders in Adolescents

Predictors of Enrollment and Retention in a Preventive Parenting Intervention for Divorced Families

The Dependency Needs And Perceived Availability And Adequacy Of Relationships In Female Adolescent Suicide Attempters

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