Family Therapy for Depression in Young People

Abstract

[present] a brief review of the literature regarding the families of depressed children and the linkage between parental depression and the emergence of depressive symptoms in children / turn to a delineation of an interpersonal family therapy (IFT) model that we have developed specifically for work with depressed youths and their families / this model, predicated on family systems theory, cognitive-behavioral psychology, the tenets of object relations theory, and developmental psychopathology, integrates other authors' approaches to family interventions with depressives (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)