title: Posttraumatic Stress and Depression in the Nonoffending Caregivers of Sexually Abused Children: Associations With Parenting Practices.
abstract: Caregiver mental health is a known correlate of parenting practices, and recent research indicated that parental depression following childhood sexual abuse disclosure is associated with concurrent parenting difficulties. The present study extended this line of research by investigating posttraumatic stress symptoms and depression in a sample of caregivers (N = 96) of children who experienced sexual abuse recruited from a child advocacy center as well as parenting practices reported by both caregivers and their children (mean age = 10.79 years, SD = 3.29; 79% female). Twenty-four percent of caregivers met criteria for presumptive clinical depression, clinically significant posttraumatic stress, or both. Results indicated elevated caregiver-reported inconsistent parenting in the context of clinically significant distress across symptom groups; children reported particularly elevated inconsistent parenting for caregivers with posttraumatic stress only. Caregiver depression was associated with low self-reported positive parenting and caregiver involvement in addition to self-reported inconsistencies. Directions for future research are offered to further elucidate the relationships between caregiver mental health and parenting practices following childhood sexual abuse.
authors.affiliation: a National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center , Medical University of South Carolina , Charleston , South Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jobe-Shields
authors.affiliation: a National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center , Medical University of South Carolina , Charleston , South Carolina, USA.|b Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center , Charleston , South Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Carole C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Swiecicki
authors.affiliation: c Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters , Norfolk , Virginia, USA.
authors.forename: Darci R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Fritz
authors.affiliation: c Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters , Norfolk , Virginia, USA.
authors.forename: Jessica S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Stinnette
authors.affiliation: a National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center , Medical University of South Carolina , Charleston , South Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Rochelle F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Hanson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Caregiver depression; caregiver mental health; childhood sexual abuse; parenting; posttraumatic stress
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