Exploring the sibling’s life experiences that who have a schizophrenia sibling.

• Main Authors: CHANG, YU-YING, 張育瑛
• Other Authors: CHANG, CHIN-FEN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00001464475734669145

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 社會工作學系 === 104 === 　　The purpose of this study was to explore the sibling’s experiences of whom life with schizophrenia sibling. It hopes to outline the experience, feeling, thoughts and survival appearance when the family faced the impact of disease psychosis. 　　In this study, we used snowball sampling to conduct the research. We found three respondents, who are women in 30-40 years of age and have schizophrenia sibling for more than five years. And three respondents are in contact with the field of social work when they were in school. In this study, we used the analysis method from Lieblich to conduct "Overall - Content" and "Categories - Content" analysis. Also, the researcher reflects her own experience of life and growth in the end of the study. 　　The study found that when someone suffering from psychosis disorder in a family, it has impact on the entire family. Siblings must find their place in the family due to this change. During the growing process, siblings are easy to feel "lonely" because it is difficult to talk about their own family issues to others, and while the parents put more efforts on the illness sibling, they are easy to be ignored. With the change of age, parents expect the sibling assist to take care of the illness sibling gradually. However, it will incur another issue if the siblings is willing to take the responsibility. After all, they will hasitate whether to bear the burden or not because their future life will change due to this decision. However, three respondents all said that they would not abandon their sick sibling, because of illness limbs are family. In addition, when the siblings are looking for a partner or thinking about marriage, they worry about if the partner could accept the sick sibling, and concern about the genetic issue. Therefore, it is more difficult for them to find the life partner. However, their worries incur from the society's judge. The acceptance for psychosis patients is not high. When there is a family member who was suffering from mental illness, it seems that the person is not appropriate to marry. People may think there have families defects or genetic problems in the family. 　　We hope after the share and discussion of the three respondents in this study, public and related professionals can get better understanding of the situation, condition, or issue to know what the siblings face.