Clarification of Chief Complaints, Symptoms, and Problems of Children with Emotional Problems

Abstract

　　This paper is a part of study for proposing a new methodology for helping children with emotional problems. Clarifying chief complaints, symptoms, and problems, thus reviewing problem behaviors and problem-solving process from a new viewpoint, the author analyzes interview process of three cases of children with school refusal problems.

　　The first hypothesis is that parent's implicit aim for coming to counseling is solving their own problems. Thus ploblems of the child, parent, and all family from a circular and hierarchal stracture.

　　The second hypothesis is that it is bettre to deal with child problem first at initial stage by setting up a separate frame from parent's.

　　In this way parent problem can be handled effectively. Selection of suitable intervention skils for specific frame is important.

　　The third hypothesis is that recording the therapy process by the scoring method created by the author is useful.