Psychotraumatology Aspects Highlighted in Personal and Trasngenerational History of Professional Foster Parents, in Relation to Career Choice
Journal Title: Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy - Year 2016, Vol 19, Issue 4
Abstract
Introduction: Each event, situation or traumatic factor has major consequences on the person, both physically and emotionally. These effects of traumatic experiences of the human psyche can be identified by changes on understanding the individual self and the world in which the person lives. Objective: Foster parents’ awareness of psychotraumatic elements from their personal and transgenerational history as the cause of choosing this profession. Methods: The research methods and tools used were selected in accordance with the objectives and research hypotheses: the psychodiagnostic method, the experimental method, statistical methods, the qualitative analysis method. Results: We had analyzed, on one hand, the foster parents’ answers at the family pshychotraumatic questionnaire assessment correlated with information obtained from genograms, and, on the other hand, we have examined the conscious motivation of choosing this profession, declared in the questionnaire. We later statistically analyzed the results according to the complex evaluation grid of foster parents’ efficiency, regarding the motivation of becoming a foster parent, correlated with the psychotraumatic history, before and after attending the personal development experiential group. Conclusions: We believe that an efficient foster parent is a competent person, with a psychoemotional and behavioral balance, with a good knowledge of one’s self and the ability to adapt to new experiences.
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Marinela-Carmen Grigore
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