Analysis of the stress situation of the guardian who holds social withdrawal minority, and the effect of parent training intervention

2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 15530445
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: Niigata University
• Principal Investigator: KAMIMURA Eiichi Niigata University, Institute of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, Associate Professor, 人文社会・教育科学系, 助教授 (80233948)
• Project Period (FY): 2003 – 2005
• Keywords: Social Withdrawal / Parent Stress / minority (underage people) / parent training

Research Abstract

The parent training intervention to the guardian of "non-psychotic social withdrawal minority" was continued, and the effect was evaluated. Permission of the publication for the report was obtained from 9 parents. As a result of the intervention, significant decrease on "stress aggravation thinking scale among the guardian of social withdrawal" was observed. This scale included such item as "the family should take responsibility for the withdrawal", "having negative view about the future of the minority". In addition to this, "depression and/or anxiety" score in SRS-18 fell notably. Moreover, communication skill training for the parents led them to show significant reduction to the item of "shutting up in his/her room", "the irregularity of everyday life", "hopelessness", "not talking about the future", etc among a social withdrawal behavior checking items. Results suggested that skill training for "recovery of communication with their minority" is effective in an modification of their pessimistic view and improvement of their relief from a superfluous sense of responsibility. Creation of the report which summarized the result of research for three years was performed.