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KMID : 0614420160440020005
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Mental Health & Social Work
2016 Volume.44 No. 2 p.5 ~ p.34
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A Phenomenological Study on the Caring Experience in Families with Mental Disabled Children
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Han Ji-Yeon
Choi Song-Sik
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to understand the nature of caring experience in families with mentally disabled children and to explore what such an experience means. To achieve this purpose, the two following questions are raised: first, what is the caring experience of a family having mentally disabled children? second, which phenomenon occurs in a family having mentally disabled adult children? In performing this study, Van Mannens’ hermeneutic phenomenological approach is selected. As a result, 14 identified topics on the caring experience of families with mentally disabled adult children were drawn and based on this, the final 7 essential topics were determined. Also, by looking at the caring experience of participants from the ontological and relational perspectives, I drew essential topics, specifically for each of four seasons. From the existential and relational perspectives, the caring experience from taking care of mentally disabled children is the way to Sophia and truth to live a new life by accepting life changes.
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KEYWORD
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mental disorder, caring experience in families, phenomenon
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