We sureveyed children's Family Image by using our special tool, Projective DesignTest of Family Image. Subjects were the second year students of junior high school in metropolitan area and F prefecture in Japan.
We analyzed a sample of 92 students in metropolitan area and of 203 students in F prefecture.
The main results obtained were as follows :
(1) Father, mother and child connection image were tend to alter correlatively. If the connection image of father and mother is strong, the connection image of mother and child, father and child also are strong.
(2) Compare with Nakano research, father, mother and child power image have not changed, connection image of father and mother has become estranged, and connection image of mother and child has come closer in the last five year.
(3) Their self power image were tend to be decided by order of birth.
(4) 28 students of 159 students had pets imaged their pets was a member of their family. The connection image between pets and them were stronger than other family members.
From these results, we found that relationship family member are homogeneous at present, but connection image of father and mother has changed. We suggested that this change of parents connection image affect problem of junior high school students at present.
This study focused on the relation between the family as a social support of clients and effectiveness of supportive interview. First, Social Support Questionnaire, Manifest Anxiety Scale, Scale of the Pregnant Term Anxiety, Todaishiki Egogram were administered to 166 pregnant women. And then 4 pregnant women (2 with high-social support and 2 with low-social support) were selected as clients of supportive interview. All sessions were taken place by the auther and their effectiveness were assessed by decrease of anxiety and evaluation of supportive interview by the clients. The degree of agreement between personality, ability to perceive and utilize social support, what clients expected from supportive interview and what interviewer offered was closely related with effectiveness of supportive interview. The consideration of the elements of the social support of the client in psychotherapy is recommended from this study.
The purpose of this study was to examine how married women feel and think on taking care of family members in their family. “Family Care” is the new analytical concept proposed to clarify their experience concerning taking care of family members. This concept consists of three dimensions (behavioral, emotional, perceptional) and three fields (child-rearing, caring for partners, housekeeping). A questionnaire was used. Subjects were 401 pairs with the child aged 3-to 5-years old in nuclear family. The major findings are as follows; (1) Family care was unsymmetrically exectued between wives and husbands. Wives took care of their members more than husbands did. (2) Factor analysis of the perceptional dimension extracted “Negative attitude toward the whole family care” as the first factor. (3) Wives' feeling and attitude toward family care was greatly influenced by their husbands. The less their husbands took care of wives, the worse wives felt emotionally and the worse they thought of taking care of their members. (4) Employed women showed more positive attitude toward child-rearing and less negative attitude toward taking care of family members.
This study reports two case examples of anxiety disorder with panic attack. In both cases MRI paradoxical approaches were applied and seemed effective in reducing panic attack and other anxiety symptoms.
Case 1 : A woman, 30 years old with a job, complained of amnesia and of breathing difficulty. Anticipation of symptoms was evident from her attitude of communication and the content of what she said. Paradoxical indications in MRI style were applied, including exaggerating symptoms and predicting relapses, and prompt reduction of symptoms was observed.
Case 2 : A male student of 20 years old complained of hypnagogic hallucination of black object when he tried to sleep in the bed at night. The same style of paradoxical indication was applied and the symptom disappeared at the 2nd interview.
Vignettes of interviews of the both cases were presented as verbatim transcripts and discussed.