Maternal depressive symptoms in the postnatal period are associated with long-term impairment of mother-child bonding

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 273-278

  Moehler, E ^a   Brunner, R ^a   Wiebel, A ^a   Reck, C ^a   Resch, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Maternal bonding; Maternal depressive symptoms; Mother child bonding; Parent child relations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNITY WARD; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION;

ADULT; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33748362648     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-006-0149-5     Document Type: Article

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