Publication details
Fenomén spousifikace: Co se stane, když dítě přebírá zodpovědnost za chybějícího rodiče?
| Title in English | The phenomenon spousification: What happens when child takes responsibilities of his missing parents? |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Spousification is kind of boundary dissolution, typical in the family, which is having marital conflict or one parent is absent. It is an intimate relationship between parent and child, when parent is looking for child support, the child goes to the partner („spouse“). The term spoucificon is based on the construct of boundary dissolution. The concept of boundary dissolution has a long history in both the psychodynamic and family systems literatures and is linked to a number of important processes in developmental psychopathology. In the empirical study of boundary dissolution has been hindered by the multiplicity of therms (triangulation, parentification) and conceptualizations have been used to capture the construct. The qualitative research study is focus on conceptualization of the phenomenon spousification. What happens when child takes responsibilities or competencies of his parent? Under what circumstances did this situations happened? What are the symptoms? And who is active in this relationship – parent/child? The study was designed as a detail analysis of 4 focus groups (8-10 respondents) and 11 interviews by children aged 12-17 years focusing on the disruption boundaries of individual families and influence on the personality of the child and his family. They were organized with children with conduct disorders and with children from general population. This focus groups and interviews were recorded, analyzed and coded in program Atlas.ti. We came to the three characteristics of this phenomenon: categories of spousification, categories of circumstances, and the extent to which the child is an active agent. |