Additional file 1 of Different perspectives in psychiatry: how family-oriented are professionals in Germany?

TL;DR: An up-to-date overview of psychopathology in children of parents with various mental illnesses and/or addiction, based on recent literature is given to encourage mental health services to address the needs of these children.

TL;DR: The evidence base is limited to risks for offspring following postnatal depression in mothers and there is little focus on fathers in the literature, so future work should focus on discovering mechanisms linking physical and mental health across generations.

TL;DR: Evidence on the concept and scope of family-focused practice in adult and child and youth mental health care settings is synthesized to provide a basis for practice oriented to providing a "whole of family" approach to care.

TL;DR: In families with children referred to child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinics, parental symptom scores are associated with adverse circumstances and with similar psychopathology in their offspring, indicating, without implying causality, that some families are particularly vulnerable, with multiple family members affected and living in adverse circumstances.