The Impact of Postnatal Depression and Associated Adversity on Early Mother-Infant Interactions and Later Infant Outcome

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2512-2526

  Murray, Lynne ^a   Fiori Cowley, Agnese ^a   Hooper, Richard ^a   Cooper, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIALIZATION;

ADULT; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTELLIGENCE; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 0030253093     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01871.x     Document Type: Article

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