Conclusions
depression, depressive symptoms, internalizing disorders
This is the first study to evaluate the effects of the FGCB intervention on children’s risk of depression in the mid-term outside of the original research group. We show that the German adaptation GuG-Auf is effective in buffering against the natural increase in self-reported symptoms of internalizing disorders which children of parents with depression show. We found no effects of the intervention on parent-reported internalizing symptoms or externalizing symptoms. Reductions in depressive symptoms are likely to be the result of changes in children’s coping with stress as well as their parents’ parenting. We also observed some improvements in the CG who received no intervention, which may point to the particularly resilient sample in this study. Future endeavours should seek to modify the intervention such that it can be easily accessed on a population level.