Parental-adolescent Relationship Quality as a Link in Adolescent and Maternal Depression

Abstract

This paper focuses on teenage depression and the family factor that influences or induce teenage depression. How to diagnose depression, this paper introduced some popular tests and scales that many hospitals use to help their patients. This paper also discusses different types of parenting and how they influence their children’s cognition, future, and the way they view the world. There are four types of parenting: authoritarian parenting, authoritative parenting, authoritative parenting and permissive parenting, and uninvolved parenting. Each parenting style is different and it will affect a lot from a child’s earlier stage of life to adulthood, parenting is essential in a family. Adolescence is a critical period of life where a human being changes, matures, and prepares for adulthood. To add on, teenage depression and parents’ influence are explained in this paper, this paper also gives information on how parents could help their depressed adolescents through the right way of communication with their children. Future research should include more qualitative data rather than quantitative data.