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KMID : 1025820170250030595
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Family and Family Therapy
2017 Volume.25 No. 3 p.595 ~ p.619
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Emotional Recovery of a Parentified Child: A Collaborative Autoethnography
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Son Go-Eun
Kim Myeong-Chan
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study described the emotional difficulties experienced by the researchers at the expense of their parents. The purpose was to describe the process of emotional recovery by recognizing the emotions that parentified children feel and express.
Methods: The researchers used autoethnography to explore individual experience within a social context.
Results: The parentified children, experiencing separation anxiety due to unstable affection, suppressed their “self” and lived for their parents. They focused on the parents and self-harmed because they could not feel their own existence and value. The parents recognized that they expressed their emotions and thoughts about the parents to other family members. Acceptance by the family contributed to changes of the parentified children.
Conclusion: These results can assist family therapists to intervene to facilitate the emotional recovery of parentified children.
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KEYWORD
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collaborative autoethnography, parentified children, emotional recovery, self-injury
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