英文摘要 |
Play therapy is a well-known clinically accepted maneuver to treat children with mental disorders. Understanding the parenting conceptions concerning to the child patient is important as child mental adjustment depends significantly on parenting believes. In order to efficiently help Taiwan parents whose children undergo play therapy treatment, it is essential to understand their parenting conceptions culturally. This is due to the fact that the therapy rationales come from western world, and currently the Taiwan society has bi-cultural characteristics. To date, neither the content of parenting conceptions regarding the client child, nor that how these conceptions were built up within the changing Taiwan society is elusive. In this study, I undertook these issues in order to have betterment in implementing parenting interventions during the play therapy. This study follows the philosophical thinking of constructivism research paradigm and methodologically adopted narrative approach with open-coding procession to collect and analyze the data. A child patient's mother was recruited as the interviewee for semi-structure interviews to deeply explore her personal conceptions related to parenting and her past life experience. The qualities of this inquiry were found to meet the measures of trustworthiness and follow the research ethics. The results showed that the interviewee had grown up at the traditional parenting ambiance which can be termed as 'parent-based' indicating parent domination. This is characterized by stressing authoritarian, the duties of role, academic preference, and emotional restrain. Eventually she adept to new modern life experiences which highly influenced her parental believes. In turn, she adopted child-based believes which emphasizes the emotional expressions, verbal interactions, and in respecting the deeds and desires of the children. Despite this, her parenting style was still found in expressing part of her past traditional Chinese parenting qualities and skills. To sum up, this study suggests that it is essential to understand parenting conceptions culturally for implementing parenting interventions during play therapy related to the children. |