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''Depression is an illness that feeds upon itself,'' said Dr. William Beardslee,
professor of child psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who has spent his
career studying depression in children and developing family interventions.
''Very often people who are depressed don't seek the care they need." In 2009,
the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council issued a report,
''Depression in Parents, Parenting, and Children,'' that summarized a large and
growing body of research on the ways that parental depression can affect how
people take care of their children, and how those children fare.
One in five Americans will suffer from depression at some point, noted Dr.
Beardslee, who was on the committee that issued the report. ''Untreated,
unrecognized parental depression can lead to negative consequences for
kids,'' he said, ranging from poor school performance to increased visits to the
emergency room to poorer peer relationships and adolescent depression.
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