PROBLEM DIAGNOZOWANIA DEPRESJI U MATEK DZIECI Z ZESPOŁEM DOWNA

The article is devoted to an important social problem, which is the diagnosis of depression in mothers of children with Down syndrome. The article is of a research nature, based on factual interviews, and three case studies of depressed mothers who raise a child with Down syndrome were developed. In the course of the research, several important conclusions were found, including that the diagnosis of depression in the surveyed women resulted in a greater awareness of their own problems and difficulties in the respondents, allowed them to make changes in the direction of coping, search for their own resources and resources in the external environment to fight depression, and a change in family relationships. It was necessary to work out rules of cooperation between family members