“…Depressed mothers, with the support of psychotherapy, were better able to interpret the emotion expressed on their children's faces (Free, Alechina and Zahn Waxler, 1996). Outcomes from an early stimulation programme for mothers and infants (aged 0–6 months) showed that, following the programme, vulnerable mothers found it easier to perceive their child's mood and imitated more of their verbal and facial expressions (Moreau, Leveille and Roy, 1998). Adolescent children (aged 20–21 years) from families at high psychiatric risk who had taken part in a five‐year counselling programme had fewer psychiatric symptoms than a similar group who had not undertaken the programme (Aronen and Arajarvi, 2000).…”