Research about the Interaction and Interplay Between Parental Psychological Control and the Comorbidity of Depression and PTSD

Abstract

Different from parental behavioral control, parental psychological control is mostly identified as a bad thing to children. Parental psychological control may make children have some internalizing problems, like depressive symptoms. In psychiatry, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is probably comorbid with depression. This essay will use literature review to study if parental psychological control itself is a kind of PTSD, how the comorbidity of depression and PTSD interact and interplay with parental psychological control, and what can people do to help parents reduce psychological control. Mothers psychological control often stronger than fathers. Psychological control is also associated with some unhealth developmental problems. Parent and childrens characteristics and childrens behavior are probable sources of parental psychological controls happening. This essay will show two ways which children respond to parental psychological control. Their also have some advice to reduce parental psychological control.