The Impact of Complex Trauma and Depression on Parenting: An Exploration of Mediating Risk and Protective Factors

Banyard, Victoria L.; Williams, Linda M.; Siegel, Judith M.

doi:10.1177/1077559503257106

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“…Emotional abuse has the most negative effect on a child’s development (Allen, 2011; Glaser, 2011; Iwaniec, Larkin, & Higgins, 2006), and is that form of abuse most likely to influence one’s own parenting in a variety of negative ways (Banyard, Williams, & Siegel, 2003; Muzik et al, 2013; Steele et al, 2016). …”

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Struggling with one’s own parenting after an upbringing with substance abusing parents

Tedgård

Råstam

Wirtberg

2018

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Aim: To add to our knowledge concerning the key elements involved in the individual’s experience of growing up with substance abusing parents and the resulting challenges this involved for their own parenthood. Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted with 19 parents who had participated in a mental health intervention programme. All had experienced substance abusing parents in their family of origin. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyse the data. They also completed a self-report questionnaire assessing their attachment style. Result: Participants reported a high incidence of emotional abuse and neglect coupled with inadequate support from the community. Their own parental role was influenced by high parental stress and a majority had an insecure attachment style. Conclusions: All participants had experienced a very difficult childhood which was reinforced by the fact that they received little support from society. Their childhood experience and the resulting challenges that this created in their own parenting role could negatively influence their own children’s ability to form a secure psychosocial development. It is therefore important to develop instruments that can help to identify children who were raised in misuse families in order to accommodate the transgenerational effects of growing up with substance abusing parents.

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confidence: 99%

Struggling with one’s own parenting after an upbringing with substance abusing parents

Tedgård

Råstam

Wirtberg

2018

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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“…Maternal harsh punishment and harsh conflict has been strongly linked to less secure attachment in childhood (Lyons-Ruth, Connell, Zoll, & Stahl, 1987). Domestic violence may affect parenting and increases the risk of child neglect, decreased parenting satisfaction and child physical abuse (Banyard, Williams, & Siegel, 2003). Marital conflict=divorce may affect a child's expectations of a parent's availability (Cummings & Davies, 1996;Cummings, Davies, & Campbell, 2000;El-Sheikh & Elmore-Staton, 2004).…”

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How Do I Connect? Attachment Issues in Adolescence

Shumaker

Deutsch

Brenninkmeyer

2009

Journal of Child Custody

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Attachment formation is considered a developmental process that continues far beyond infancy and early childhood. Yet the research on adolescent attachment formation remains relatively modest. This article reviews the normative and pathological developmental trajectories of attachment during adolescence. Specific attention is focused on the assessment of attachment in adolescence and different classification systems developed to describe adaptive and maladaptive adolescent attachment. The review continues with an examination into the predictors associated with secure versus insecure attachment in adolescence. Finally, forensic considerations are explored.

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“…Furthermore, our study shows that children's experienced maternal violence is not associated with maternal PTSD symptom profiles, but with the amount of the mother's own experiences of family violence during her childhood. This sheds a new light on studies that reported that parental PTSD is associated with child rearing practices such as family violence [12][13][14][15]. It may not be the PTSD of the mother per se, but the family violence experienced by the mother, that increases the risk for both, the PTSD in the mother and the exposure to family violence in the child.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several studies have found general impairments of child rearing capacities, such as inadequate emotional reaction [8], impaired parent-child relationship [9,10], disrupted communication styles [11] or physical punishment [12][13][14][15]. Physical punishment was often explained by hyperarousal symptoms or substance abuse in the parents [16] and was associated with combat experiences in veteran fathers and behavioural problems in the offspring [17].…”

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Setting the Stage for Chronic Health Problems: Cumulative Childhood Adversity among Homeless Adults with Mental Illness in Vancouver, British Columbia

Prock¹

2015

Childhood Adversity and Developmental Effects

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Background: Understanding how parental Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) may or may not affect the development and mental health in the offspring is particularly important in conflict regions, where trauma-related illness is endemic. In Rwanda, organised atrocities and the genocide against the Tutsi of 1994 have left a significant fraction of the population with chronic PTSD. The aim of the present investigation was to establish whether PTSD in mothers is associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and aggressive and antisocial behaviour in their children.Methods: A community sample of 125 Rwandan mothers who experienced the genocide of 1994 and their 12-year-old children were interviewed. Using a structured interview, symptoms of maternal PTSD and children's depression, anxiety, and aggressive and antisocial behaviour were assessed by trained and on-site supervised local B.A. psychologists. The interview also included a detailed checklist of event types related to family violence. Results: In showing that a maternal PTSD was not associated with child's psychopathology, the results contradict the assumption of straight "trans-generational trauma transmission". Instead, a child's exposure to maternal family violence posed a significant risk factor for a negative mental health outcome. Furthermore, it was not maternal PTSD-symptoms but mother's exposure to family violence during her own childhood that was associated with the magnitude of adversities that a child experiences at home. Conclusions:Contrary to a simple model of a trans-generational transmission of trauma, neither maternal PTSD nor maternal traumatic experiences were directly associated with symptoms of anxiety, depression, or antisocial and aggressive behaviour in the children. Instead, the present results suggest a relationship between parental child rearing practices and children's mental health. Furthermore, the study details the "cycle of violence", showing a significant link between maternal violence against a child and its mother's experience of childhood maltreatment.

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The Impact of Complex Trauma and Depression on Parenting: An Exploration of Mediating Risk and Protective Factors

Cited by 242 publications

References 75 publications

Struggling with one’s own parenting after an upbringing with substance abusing parents

Struggling with one’s own parenting after an upbringing with substance abusing parents

How Do I Connect? Attachment Issues in Adolescence

Setting the Stage for Chronic Health Problems: Cumulative Childhood Adversity among Homeless Adults with Mental Illness in Vancouver, British Columbia

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