Parent –child relationship, parenting behaviors, and adolescents’ depressive symptoms after an earthquake: unraveling within-adolescent associations from between-adolescent differences

In conclusion, shortly after trauma, interventions should focus on improving parent–child relationship and relieving adolescents’ depressive symp toms. Over the longer term after trauma, relieving adolescents’ depressive symptoms should be prioritized to avoid its eroding effects on parent–child relationship and parenting behaviors, and to break the “vicious cycle”.
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research