Article: "Childhood Guilt, Adult Depression?"

Jenny Chen, "Childhood Guilt, Adult Depression?" The Atlantic, January 5, 2015.

Reporting on studies that show a link between excessive feelings of guilt during childhood and the onset of depression in adulthood, this article demonstrates that feelings of guilt can cause physical changes in the brain that may contribute to psychiatric illness.  These findings could enable doctors to identify children at risk for developing depression, and they provide even more motivation for parents to practice healthy parenting strategies and steer clear of "guilt-inducing" tactics.  The research also targets guilt as a primary feature of depression and anxiety, indicating that learning to manage feelings of guilt might play an important role in managing depression.