The Effect of Individual Filial Therapy for Widow on Parent-Child Relationship, Parenting Stress, and Grief Experience

• Main Authors: Chen, Ya-Ling, 陳雅玲
• Other Authors: Tsai, Mei-Hsiang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87020366343586726406

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 諮商與輔導學系碩士在職專班 === 104 === The study aims to explore the effect individual filial therapy for a widow on parent-child relationship, pareting stress, and grief experience. In this study, the author invited a widow and her child as research participants. The 10-week model of filial therapy founded by Landreth was used. The widow filled out the Parenting Stress Index（PSI）and Child Behavior Check List for ages 6-18（CBCL／6-18）as well as received semi-structured interviews before, on the 6th session, and after filial therapy. Thematic analysis was conducted for qualitative data, and PSI and CBCL quantitative information was used as an auxiliary. The main results of the current study were as follows. 1. Filial therapy helped the widow to be aware of her child, the child’s own feelings of grief, and a new understanding of the child's grief reactions. 2. Through learning skills, the widow become more effective in listening, empathy, and acceptance her child’s emotional feelings. 3. Filial therapy helped the widow to mitigate the pressure of facing grief reactions from children, and to promote parental confidence, and resulted in enhancing the parent-child relationship. 4. Filial therapy helped the widow to become self-awareness for grief state and consolidate self-concept. 5. The intervention accompanied the widow through the adjustment of grief stages. When the widow’s grief had better adaptation, the mother also helped her children growing forward. Based on the results of the current study, the author provided recommendations for practitioners and future researchers.