Charrois, J., Côté, S. M., Japel, C., et al. J Child Psychol Psychiatr. 2017; 58: 1210–1218. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12764

Maternal depression during the early years of a child’s life (prenatal/postnatal) has long been associated with long-term emotional and behavioural problems for the child, especially conduct disorder.  This study explored whether high quality childcare could ameliorate some of the effects of maternal depression on children and found that it could.  Children receiving high quality childcare whose mothers had clinically significant depression presented fewer difficulties that those receiving low quality childcare.  This difference was not apparent for children whose mothers did not have depression.

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