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Out of the Darkened Room: When a Parent Is Depressed: Protecting the Children and Strengthening the Family
by William R. Beardslee, MD, 352 pp, $25.95, ISBN 0-316-08549-9, Boston, Mass, Little, Brown and Co, 2002.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:493.
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This is a marvelous book—eloquent, insightful, and inspiring. Based on his extensive experience and research as Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Children's Hospital Boston, the author shares what he and his colleagues have learned about strengthening families and protecting children when a parent is depressed. The use of illustrative clinical vignettes accompanied by explanatory commentaries will be highly useful to pediatricians and others interested in augmenting their competencies in caring for children and other family members when a parent is depressed. The pediatrician will also find much that is readily applicable to families with a parent who has some other chronic disability.
Highly readable, this book contains a wealth of clinical stories, principles, and topics, including examples of what to say and ask, talking with children, early interventions, risk identification, preventive and health-promoting steps, how to foster family communication and resilience, creating partnerships, building family strengths, and promoting community linkages—in short, how the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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