Vtilization of Visit-Recording Naikan Therapy in Child care Support

Abstract

  It is indispensable for children’s healthy growth and development that their nurturers continuously give them affection. In case the nurturers are not able to do this for their children, it is necessary to alleviate the sense of hopelessness which the nurturers harbour towards parenting, and the sense of tenseness which they suffer from during daily and social life.

  In this research, ‘Visit-Recording Naikan Therapy,’ an adapted form of ‘Recording Naikan Therapy,’ was utilized with three nurturers who are rearing infants, and its effectiveness was examined using a Grounded Theory Approach. As a result, concepts such as ‘change, led by Recording Naikan Therapy’,‘awareness, acquired by Recording Naikan Therapy’, and ‘effect of Recording Naikan Therapy’ were extracted from the nurturers’ narratives. Furthermore, the results showed the process by which introspection during the therapy had influenced their emotions, thoughts and behaviour. Through answering the three fixed questions of Naikan Therapy, the nurturers reconsidered their own selves objectively and realized their own patterns of behaviour and thought. As a result, they gained insights. Their self-understandings were deepened and gradually changed through this new awareness, and new narratives emerged in interviews after the Visit-Recording Naikan Therapy.