The children behavior problems and correlations of them with maternal mental health

child behavior problems is reflecting psychological problems for parents, especially mothers, and mental illness of one parent likely increases to have mental illness in the children. Considering the negative interaction between parent and child diseases, this study aimed to assess the relationship between child behavior problems and maternal mental health was conducted. This study was done on 80 mothers of solidarity with children with behavioral problems referred to the pediatric clinic psychiatric ward, Golestan Hospital, Ahwaz city and the easy way to go based on successive selection was performed. Research tool, contains a mental health questionnaire (SCL-90- R) and children's behavioral problems questionnaires (CBCL). For data analysis was used from Pearson correlation and regression analysis. The results show that among all children with behavioral problems has a significant positive relationship with all subscales of maternal mental health. There is a significant positive relationship between external behavioral problems of children with all subscales of maternal mental health. significant positive relationship was obtained between internal behavioral problems of children with all subscales of mental health of mothers except the individual sensitivity. Considering the high correlation between child behavior problems and maternal mental disorder, it is necessary for reducing effects of psychological problems of mothers on children to ponder design.