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KMID : 1025820170250020347
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Family and Family Therapy
2017 Volume.25 No. 2 p.347 ~ p.373
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Structural Family Therapy for Abusive Parenting and Adolescent Game Addiction
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Youm Eun-Sun
Chun Young-Ju
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Abstract
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Objectives: This single case study explored the outcome of nine sessions of counseling with the parents of an adolescent suffering from a game addiction and an abusive mother.
Methods: A total of nine therapy sessions were conducted, including four individual sessions with the mother, one individual session with the father, and four conjoint sessions. All the therapeutic processes were recorded, coded, and analyzed using Nvivo 2.0, a qualitative research software program. The therapist, guided by the Structural Family Therapy model, used a four-step map to address the parent-child boundary and hierarchy, and to restructure the family rules.
Results: Initially, a rigid and dysfunctional parent-child system affected the mother’s abuse and the adolescent’s game addiction. Counseling interventions included joining the family, promoting family interactions, and restructuring the family. Following the parental counseling, family members’ attitudes changed positively, functional communication ensued, and an appropriate family hierarchy was achieved.
Conclusions: As a result of the interventions, the family structure became more functional and there was a reduction in the mother’s abuse (physical and verbal) and the adolescent’s game addiction. This study revealed that parental counseling is effective in reducing symptoms, even when the child does not participate in the sessions.
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KEYWORD
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parental counseling, physical abuse, verbal abuse, game addiction, Structural Family Therapy, Nvivo
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