Mother’s depression influence on the psychological development of children

Abstract

Maternal depression is a prevalent disease, which is becoming more and more common. Knowing the dangers that mother’s disorder can bring to the healthy development of her children, we followed two goals with this paper: to provide up-to-date information on mother’s depression and, on the other hand, to show how mother´s depression may impact on every stage of the psychological development of children. A systematic review has been carried out using the PRISMA procedure, which has been used based on the following databases: ISI Web of Knowledge, PsycINFO, Psicodoc, Psycarticles, PILOTS, MEDLINE, PubMed, Dialnet, Proquest Research Library and PLOS. For the selection criteria of articles terms like mother, child, depression, and influence has been used both in English and in Spanish. In the last part of this paper resources to promote a healthy psychological development of children and adolescents suffering from maternal depression are proposed.