Ouderverstoting Over tussenkomen in familiezaken en in familierelaties : complexe dynamieken tussen ouders en kinderen (na scheiding)

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Ann Buysse

Bij gezinstransities moeten grenzen, samenlevingsvormen en rollen heronderhandeld worden. Dat gaat vaak niet vanzelf. Niet in het minst omdat er geen universele norm voor bestaat. Een aantal decennia geleden was scheiding uitzonderlijk en moeilijk zodat het wel vaker aanleiding gaf tot een gevecht met lange, aversieve gerechtelijke procedures waarin ook kinderen en ouder – kind relaties meegezogen werden. In die context ontstond vanuit klinische observatie het begrip ouderverstoting. Wetenschappelijke evidentie is er niet. Oorspronkelijk gezien als een syndroom binnen een zuiver lineair, individueel en categoriaal denken onderging het begrip dan ook verschillende transities.In deze bijdrage bespreken we de ouder ‐ kind relatie en het begrip ‘ouderverstoting’ in de ondertussen ten gunste veranderde maatschappelijke context met een meer gender‐neutraal opvoedingsklimaat en een meer tolerante houding ten aanzien van scheiding en ‘andere gezinnen’. Ook nu is er geen universele norm voor ouder – kind relaties (na scheiding). Er zijn vele manieren om ouder te zijn en vele manieren om kind te zijn en de ouder ‐ kind relatie is te begrijpen binnen een complex samenspel van kwetsbaarheden van gezinsleden en gezinsrelaties. Een vertroebelde ouder – kind relatie met afwijzing kan oneindig veel betekenissen hebben en enkel de gezinsleden zijn hier eigenaar van. In functie van de context, de betekenisverlening en de vraag kan professioneel worden tussengekomen. Het gaat om het regelen van familiezaken met respect en aandacht voor familierelaties. Dit vergt een multidisciplinaire aanpak, met interprofessionele samenwerking. In de bijdrage doe ik enkele suggesties hiertoe. Abstract : Family transitions require a reorganization and re‐negotiation of boundaries and family roles. As there are no ‘standards’ for living in a post‐divorce family, this can be difficult. A few decades ago, divorce was rare and difficult. It often led to fights with long aversive court proceedings with negative effects on children and parent‐child relationships. Within this context, the notion of a parent alienation syndrome was described based on clinical observation. There is no scientific evidence to back‐up this clinical observation that rooted in purely linear, individual and categorical thinking. The concept of parent alienation has been the subject of strong debates. In this article I discuss the parent ‐ child relationship and the concept of parent alienation within the present societal context with more gender‐neutral parenting roles and a more tolerant attitude towards divorce and ‘other families’. I take a systemic perspective. There are many ways to be a parent and many ways to be a child and the parent ‐ child relationship can only be understood within the context of a complex interplay of family members’ strength and vulnerabilities as well as characteristics of family relationships. A distorted parent-child relationship can have many different meanings and only family members can give meaning to what exactly rejection means within a parent ‐ child relationship. I give some suggestions for how professionals could intervene in family matters and family relationships with a strong plea for a multidisciplinary approach.

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon H.C. Chiang ◽  
Arthur K. Ellis

Family is the primary learning environment for children. Parents are children’s first social network. Prior to and concurrent with school education, the critical influence of parental expectation eventually permeates into all aspects of an individual’s life. However, the subject of family relationships is rarely addressed within school curricula. Furthermore, due to some seemingly unreachable parental expectations and unbearable family discord, brokenness continues to increase. The influence of expectation on relations is an area of limited academic research. This study explores parental expectation and its influence on parent-child relationships, using mixed methods: qualitative research methods involving interviews and focus group studies; and quantitative research utilizing a 41 item Likert scale questionnaire which was analyzed using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) in order to identify underlying relationships among measured variables. This exploratory study establishes the basis to encourage further research on the topic of expectations and relationships.


10.18060/1881 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Staci J. Jensen-Hart ◽  
Jeff Christensen ◽  
Lacey Dutka ◽  
J. Corey Leishman

Military families experience increased stress when facing issues of deployment, separation, and reunification. The increased stress impacts the parent-child relationship as well as child behavioral and emotional well-being. Although recognizing the resiliency of military families, research points to the need to monitor parental stress both pre- and post-deployment and highlights the inherent risks that separation and reunification pose for the parent-child relationship bond. This pilot study was designed to explore the effectiveness of the Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) Training Model as a proactive method of enhancing parent-child relationships, reducing parental stress, and preventing negative impact of military separations on children.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S895-S895
Author(s):  
Ayako Baba

Abstract OBJECTIVE: Long-term caregiver (child)/care-recipient (parent) relationships have both positive and negative effects on care. However, the mechanism of that impact is unclear. This study aimed to explore how parent–child relationships affect care and which aspects cause those effects. METHOD: Five hundred thirty-four adult children who were caring for or had cared for their parents at home completed the scales of parent–child psychological independence, the acceptance of care, care attitude, and care burden. Data were analyzed using a pass analysis with multiple group structural equation modeling to identify the relationship between parent–child psychological independence, acceptance of care, care attitude, and care burden, and the care dyad difference of the models. RESULT: 1) “Reliable relationship with parent” in parent–child psychological independence affected “resignation” and “understanding actively” in acceptance of care. 2) “Psychological individuation from the parent” in parent–child independence affected all subscales of care attitudes. 3) “Resistance” and “understanding actively” in acceptance of care and “auto-pilot” in care attitude affected care burden. 4) In mother–daughter caregiving, “resistance” and “resignation” had stronger effects on “auto-pilot” whereas “utilization of resource” and “flexible response” in care attitude and “resistance” had weaker effects on care burden. CONCLUSION: The relationship between long-term parent–child relationship and care were revealed. In some points, daughters who were caring for or had cared for their mothers had a different model from other care dyads. These results suggest that child caregivers should be supported mentally in accordance to their difficult points and dyads.


2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 519-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle R. Vantieghem ◽  
Laurel Gabard-Durnam ◽  
Bonnie Goff ◽  
Jessica Flannery ◽  
Kathryn L. Humphreys ◽  
...  

AbstractInstitutional caregiving is associated with significant deviations from species-expected caregiving, altering the normative sequence of attachment formation and placing children at risk for long-term emotional difficulties. However, little is known about factors that can promote resilience following early institutional caregiving. In the current study, we investigated how adaptations in affective processing (i.e., positive valence bias) and family-level protective factors (i.e., secure parent–child relationships) moderate risk for internalizing symptoms in previously institutionalized (PI) youth. Children and adolescents with and without a history of institutional care performed a laboratory-based affective processing task and self-reported measures of parent–child relationship security. PI youth were more likely than comparison youth to show positive valence biases when interpreting ambiguous facial expressions. Both positive valence bias and parent–child relationship security moderated the association between institutional care and parent-reported internalizing symptoms, such that greater positive valence bias and more secure parent–child relationships predicted fewer symptoms in PI youth. However, when both factors were tested concurrently, parent–child relationship security more strongly moderated the link between PI status and internalizing symptoms. These findings suggest that both individual-level adaptations in affective processing and family-level factors of secure parent–child relationships may ameliorate risk for internalizing psychopathology following early institutional caregiving.


1993 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 133-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER EADES ◽  
TAO LIN ◽  
XUEMIN LIN

Rooted trees abound in computing and it is often necessary to draw them for visualization and documentation purposes. In the classical convention for tree drawing, the tree is drawn in a “level” fashion, with nodes (represented by boxes) at depth k lying on a horizontal line at a distance of k units below the root. The parent — child relationships are represented by lines between the boxes. Several algorithms have been developed for constructing a compact layout of a tree in the classical convention. In this paper we investigate algorithms for drawing trees according to two new conventions. In the inclusion convention, nodes are represented by boxes, and the parent — child relationship is represented by inclusion of one box in another. The tip-over convention again represents nodes as boxes, and, like the classical convention, represents the parent — child relationship by lines between the boxes; however, we allow siblings to be arranged vertically rather than horizontally. For many of the cases which arise in visualization of trees (for example, binary trees with textual information at the leaves) we present polynomial time algorithms. However, the general problem of finding minimum size layouts for either of the new conventions is shown to be NP-hard.


Author(s):  
Zahra Behmanesh ◽  
Shirali Kheramine ◽  
Khosro Ramezani

Background and Purpose: Adolescence is considered as one of the most critical life periods since adolescents are being exposed to a variety of potential stimuli, whose inappropriate response to such stimuli would prevent their proper performance in society. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of choice theory-based group training on cognitive emotion regulation and parent-child relationships in male adolescents. Materials and Methods: The research method was experimental with a pretest-posttest-follow-up design and a control group. The statistical population included all male students of the senior -high school in Dogonbadan city in the academic year 2019. Using the multi-stage cluster sampling method, 30 samples were selected and randomly assigned into experimental and control groups (n=15 per group). The research instrument included the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) and The Parent-Child Relationship Survey. The reality therapy intervention was performed on the experimental group for ten 90-minute sessions. The follow-up was performed after 60 days. Multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) was then used to analyze the data. Results: The participants included 30 male adolescents, aged between 15 and 17 years old. The research findings indicated that the choice theory-based group training was effective in promoting cognitive emotion regulation (F= 27.39, P= 0.0001) and parent-child relationship (F= 44.32, P= 0.0001). Also, their effects were sustainable until the follow-up period (P= 0.0001). Conclusion: Choice theory-based group training, as a therapeutic and clinical intervention, can be used as an appropriate and effective technique to promote cognitive emotion regulation and parent-child relationships among adolescents.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Merenkovawati

The main function of the internal picture of health (IPH) is the regulation of a person’s activity or behavior, and is aimed at maintaining the person’s health, illness prevention and illness resistance. There is one subject that continues to be insufficiently accessible to psychological research, i.e. the system of the parenting style adopted in a family and the IPH levels of their children. We can suppose that IPH is one of the major indicators of the health-oriented behavior, the latter being significantly influenced by the interfamily relationships and the parenting style. Methods: there were 82 primary school children who participated in the study. Along with the children, their mothers also took part in the research. Practically all of the fathers agreed to enroll in the study, but in fact only a few were actually involved, which was not enough to provide evidence-based conclusions. The IPH of the children and their parents was evaluated by means of a questionnaire (Nikolaeva et al., 2014). Upbringing styles were assessed by “The Analysis of Family Relationships” questionnaire (AFR method). We have shown that the better-developed the IPH is, the more likely it can signify a harmonious upbringing style. A low level of the parents’ emotional intelligence results n the predominance of indulging hyper protection parenting style which is considered ineffective. Keywords: the internal picture of health, parent-child relationship, parents, primary schoolchildren.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muthanna Samara ◽  
Adeem Ahmad Massarwi ◽  
Aiman El-Asam ◽  
Sara Hammuda ◽  
Peter K. Smith ◽  
...  

Over the last decade, research into the negative effects of problematic internet use has greatly increased. The current study adopted a mediation-moderation model in exploring the relationship between problematic internet use and substance abuse (drinking, drug use, and smoking tobacco cigarettes) among 1,613 adolescents (aged 10–16) in the UK. The findings of the study revealed a significant positive correlation between problematic internet use and substance abuse, which is mediated by traditional and cyber bullying and victimisation. Furthermore, the parent–child relationship was found to be a protective factor that moderated the correlation between problematic internet use and substance abuse and the correlation between problematic internet use and traditional bullying. The study emphasises the critical need to reduce problematic internet use among adolescents as a risk factor for involvement in bullying as perpetrators and victims, in addition to substance abuse. Furthermore, the findings of the study highlight the importance of a good parent–child relationship as a protective factor among adolescents. In light of the findings of the study, interventions for reducing problematic internet use taking into account bullying and the parent–child relationship are needed among adolescents.


2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 3752-3772
Author(s):  
Kim Bastaits ◽  
Inge Pasteels

When thinking about custodial arrangements after a divorce, there has been a shift from sole custody (mainly by mothers) to joint physical custody after a divorce. In certain countries, joint physical custody has even become the primary, legal custodial arrangement. Joint physical custody, whether implemented in legislation or not, is believed to be in the best interests of the child, as children can shape a postdivorce relationship with both their mother and father. Nevertheless, many studies on joint physical custody focus only on child outcomes. This study aims to investigate (1) whether custodial arrangements matter in addition to the parental divorce for parent–child relationships and (2) whether joint physical custody provides a better framework for parent–child relationships than sole custody arrangements. The study adds to the existing literature by including both the mother–child relationship and the father–child relationship. Moreover, joint physical custody is not only compared to sole maternal custody, but also to sole paternal custody. Using a dyadic subsample of Belgian parents and children from the Divorce in Flanders data set ( N = 623), we compare two indicators of the parent–child relationship (parent–child communication and parenting) for children with married parents, with children in joint physical custody, sole maternal custody, and sole paternal custody. The results indicate that (1) the custodial arrangements after divorce affect parent–child relationships, in addition to the divorce, with regard to both open and problematic father–child communications and the support and control of children by mothers and fathers; and (2) joint physical custody, compared with sole custody (either by the mother or father), provides a better framework to shape a postdivorce parent–child relationship with both parents in terms of open communications and support.


2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 1583-1603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Grazia Lo Cricchio ◽  
Alida Lo Coco ◽  
Charissa S. L. Cheah ◽  
Francesca Liga

Thirty mothers, ranging in age between 30 and 46 years, participated in seven focus groups aimed at analyzing perceptions and ideas of the characteristics of a good parent and parent–child relationship in southern Italy (Sicily). The discussions were transcribed and analyzed using the constant comparative analysis approach. Two major themes, discipline and affection, emerged from the discussions about the idea of a good parent, with seven further subthemes. In defining good parenting beliefs and practices, Sicilian mothers mostly believed that control, discipline, and demandingness were imperative and prioritized over warmth and responsiveness. Despite the importance given to demandingness, a good parent–child relationship was predominantly described as the result of a balance between love and control, mainly based on communication, confidence, and respect. Our findings were interpreted and discussed with consideration to the collectivistic and familistic nature of Sicilian society.


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