Preventive intervention for children of depressed parents
depression, cognitive and affective vulnerabilities
A number of psychological interventions have been developed to prevent depression in children of parents with depression. These preventive interventions target the aforementioned pathways to inter-familial depression: madadaptive parenting, increased stress exposure and cognitive and affective vulnerabilities to stress [A meta-analysis of seven RCTs evaluating preventive interventions for children of parents with depression found small but significant effects on children’s self-reported internalizing symptoms immediately after the intervention (The trial reported in this manuscript seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the FGCB in Germany (see Study Protocol [