The Influences of Childhood Trauma and Parenting Styles on The Bipolar Disorder of Teenagers

After Covid-19, more and more students were reported to commit suicide, which shows that the mental health problems have become normal phenomenons in the adolescents. It has attracted more and more attentions of parents and teachers. Among all the mental health problems, bipolar disorder has been a common and serious problem in the teenagers. Bipolar disorder is a chronic and complex disorder which is partly diagnosed in the adolescence and early adulthood. The leading causes of bipolar disorder mainly focused on genetics and environment. This paper aims to explore the influences of two aspects, childhood trauma and parenting styles on the bipolar disorder of adolescents. In this paper, some retrospective literature was reviewed again. The results show that the incidents of childhood trauma are frequent and severe in bipolar disorder. In the five subscales, emotional abuse, emotional neglect are the main two subscales which have much influence on the morbidity of bipolar disorder. Besides, compared with the control group, the different parenting styles may have different influence on children. severe punishment, emotional care and understanding,over control and protection of fathers, and the severe punishment, emotional care and understanding, preference of subjects and denial and rejection chosen by mothers may be the influential factors of the teenagers with bipolar disorder. Therefore, childhood trauma should be avoided or decreased as much as possible. Besides, parents are supposed to create a more caring and tolerable environment full of love for their children.