Perinatal maternal mental health and offspring internalizing and externalizing difficulties from early childhood through adolescence: Rhea mother—child cohort in Crete, Greece.
Longitudinal research assessing childhood mental health is limited, particularly in terms of tracking how early-life factors influence the development of emotional and behavioral disorders over time. The present study aimed to examine the influence of both antenatal and postnatal maternal mental hea...
| Publicado en: | European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 34; no. 10; pp. 3261 - 3275 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2025
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