Personal constructs of adoptive parents with the experience of care for children with significant developmental and emotional-behavioural disordersстатьяТезисы
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Аннотация:Introduction.– The current social policy in Russia actively encour- ages adoption and fostering of children with developmental abnormalities. The discrepancies between parental expectancies and attitudes with child’s behaviour, disillusionment with their perceived ability to cope with problems arisen increases the risk of family crisis and eventual placement failure.
Objective.– To study how the experience of care for children with serious developmental disorders or mental illnesses is related to expectancies and parental attitudes.
Methods.– A modification of repertory grid technique was used, with parents ranking the pictures of supposedly parentless children, as well as own family members. Quantitative indexes of construct differentiation and element distances, content-analysis of constructs and qualitative analysis of each grid were employed. Responses of parents of 16 families with adopted children with serious developmental and behavioural disorders (all resulting in stationary psychiatric care necessity) were compared to 12 control adoptive families and 20 families without adopted children. Results.– No significant differences on single indexes between groups were found. The parents from under investigation group were both low and high scorers defined by interquartile range. Qualitative analysis permitted to describe some characteristic pat- terns of how the experience of care for difficult children influence construing: the simplified construing (with use of problematic children as reference element or stigmatizing), the monolithic con-
struing with fusion of images of self and adopted children, loosened construing with projection of idiosyncratic beliefs.
Conclusions.– The impact of experience of care for seriously dis- turbed children isn’t unimodal. It is not determined by severity of child disturbances only.
Disclosure of interest.– The authors have not supplied their declara- tion of competing interest.