Parenting Well When You're Depressed

A Complete Resource for Maintaining a Healthy Family

This is a unique guide, based on our more than ten years of research of depressed parents and their families. We provide a complete tool kit of strategies, action plans, and resources that depressed parents can use to encourage and support the healthy development of their children while managing their disorder. You'll learn to recognize how parents' depression affects their day-to-day functioning as parents as well as how it impacts the specific needs of their children. Opportunities for self-assessment, checklists, and workbook-style activities are provided to help readers develop new skills and take on the challenges of alternative family situations, child-care and legal issues, money and work, nutrition, recreation, and much more.

Parenting Well When You're Depressed is available from booksellers and the publisher, New Harbinger Publications, at 1-800-748-6273 or www.newharbinger.com

Contents

Introduction
1 Managing Your Mood and the Demands of Parenting
2 Balancing Work, Parenting, and Wellness
3 Managing Household Finances
4 Feeding Your Family and You
5 Creating a Safe Environment for Your Family
6 Communicating with Children about Depression
7 Emphasizing the Positive in Relationships with Children
8 Playing and Recreation
9 Advocating for Yourself and Your Children
10 Negotiating the Legal System
11 When Your Children Are Living with Others

Info

ISBN 1-57224-251-5
7 x 10 (paper)
227 pages Aug 2001