Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
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Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol · Jan 2002
Psychiatric disorders in adult children of parents with a history of psychopathology.
The relation between major categories of psychiatric problems in parents and psychiatric disorders in their adult children has been investigated in only a few community studies. ⋯ This study has once more made it clear that children whose parents have psychiatric problems constitute an important high-risk group and that prevention and early intervention in these children constitute an important public health issue.