Security, emotionality, and parental depression: A commentary.

New studes suggest that changes in family environments due to parental depression increase children's risk for spychopathology. However, some aspects of family and child functioning may not be adversely affected. Future derections include (a) more precise definition of the response processes that are at risk in children and (b) differentiation of response processes linked with different dysfunctional family processes (e.g., parenting, marital conflict). Lottle elaboration of conceptual models has occurred in response to recent findings. Emotional security provides an explanatory construct for how certain family environments assocated with parntal depression increase children's risk for psychopathology. New derections are outlined for the study of relations between family environments associated with parental depression and children's emotional security