KMID : 0915920120150010001
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Korean Parent-Child Health Journal 2012 Volume.15 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.13
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The Experience of Children with a Schizophrenic Parent -Case Study-
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Park Mi-Young
Oh Ka-Sil
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the experience of children with a schizophrenic parent.
Methods: The research methods included biographical in-depth interviews, structured questionnaires, and child¡¯s drawings. Data were collected from September until November, 2005 at one university hospital, and interviews were recorded on audio tapes and thereby transcribed. The subjects were three adolescent children (10~15 years old) of a parent with schizophrenia.
Results: This study has five themes: It is often the case that the children with a schizophrenic parent are uninformed about their parent¡¯s illness, have difficulties dealing with symptoms are confused about their parent¡¯s image and display contradictory feelings of fear and sympathy toward their father; The children tend to harbor expectations on mother¡¯s role in the family affairs, and simultaneously show pity for her; Family relations without solidarity caused by the absence of their father make the children feel severance, separation, and isolation in and out of the family; The children feel the burden to assume additional household responsibilities; The children are reluctant to mention their father¡¯s disease.
Conclusion: the study subjects have met negativeness in both developmental characteristics and needs, which supports the need for intervention programs that meet their actual experience.
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KEYWORD
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Schizophrenia, Parent-child, Adolescent, Drawings, Case study
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