Understanding the Repetitive Transgenerational Life Scenarios in the Case of Professional Foster Parents
Journal Title: Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy - Year 2018, Vol 21, Issue 4
Abstract
Introduction: Foster care assistance is a profession many persons, especially women, choose in a conscious way, having different declared motivations, such as: the existence of a profound feeling of love towards children, the compassion towards the children without family, etc. The conscious intentions list may continue, but what lies underneath is a fascinating unconscious world, harbouring repetitions, mainly out of loyalty towards the predecessors. Objectives: 1) Developing the understanding of the fact that a significant contribution to the reasons for choosing the foster parent profession, apart from the psychotraumatic situations experienced during childhood and/ or the adult age, is also based in the life experiences of the predecessors. 2) The analysis of the intercorrelation between the inter- and transgenerational losses, the motivation for choosing the profession and the core themes in the life scenarios of the foster parents. Methods: The methods used in the research have been selected in conformity with the objectives: the psychodiagnostic and the qualitative analysis methods. Results: The results of the study confirm a psychodiagnostic value for the formative group program, focussed on the self-development of professional foster parents which leads to significant psycho-emotional and behavioural changes. A result of the research, relevant in improving the manner in which foster care parents interact with children under placement, resides in understanding that the experiences of the predecessors have a significant contribution (see the first objective). Another important result of our research is represented by the outlining of the relationships between the trauma generated by the inter and the transgenerational losses experienced by the foster parents and the motivation for choosing this profession, together with the core themes exerted through repetitive life scenarios. Conclusions: The research has a psychodiagnostic value, and, at the same time, can find its usefulness in the actual improvement of the relationship between foster parents and the children they are caring for, by helping the first become more present in their role in the lives of the children and to gain more self-awareness and insight in the life scenarios they were playing. Such aspects are also important for the development of a more sanogenous behaviour towards the others, through self-understanding.
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Marinela-Carmen Grigore
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