Parental Mental Illness

Children living with parents with mental illness were four times as likely to be placed in out-of-home care than their peers, according to findings from a Swedish study published in Pediatrics.

Mental illness in parents carried no strong link with autoimmune disease in their offspring, but risks varied widely, according to a study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research.

Parental psychiatric illness was associated with suicide attempts among offspring, according to study results published in American Journal of Psychiatry.

Individuals with three or more adverse childhood experiences are at increased risk for dementia in old age, according to results of a large-scale cohort study conducted in Japan and published in JAMA Network Open.

Parents of children with congenital heart disease may benefit from psychosocial interventions, and these efforts may reduce the burden of parental mental health problems on child outcomes, according to results of a mixed-methods study published in The Journal of Pediatrics.