A narrative research of the mental impact and the self-adjustment of the novice therapists for domentic violence abuser

• Main Authors: Yu-Chieh,Chiu, 邱郁捷
• Other Authors: 呂旭亞
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11509444965157239272

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育心理與諮商研究所碩士班 === 98 === The goal for this study is to understand the mental impact and the self-adjustment of the novice therapists working with domentic violence abuser. The research begins with the mental impact of the researchers when they entered the group of domentic violence abuser. Gradually the research focused on how novice therapists react and adjust the impact when working with domentic violence abuser. The researcher utilize the integral-contents oriented narrative research to organize and analyze the studies. The results was summarized and reorganized from interviews with three different novice therapists working with domentic violence abuser. The novice therapists working with domentic violence abuser had strong mental impact which includes the extreme fury and scare reaction posed by domentic violence abuser. They also feel threaten from the insecurity of the working environment. In addition, the experience in working might challenge their values of life so much that they start to doubt themselves if they have sufficient professionality in working. To dilute the stress and adjust themselves, the novice therapists can read more literature, attend relevant professional workshop. Self consciousness and awareness can help novice therapists understand and perceive the effect of past experience. Support and care from family and friends can improve the health both physically and mentally. Supervised with professional knowledge and experience can help to lower anxiety as well as to gain professional support. Besides, researcher proposes several suggestion and opinion from the observation throughout the studies. This research not only provides several novel aspects for novice therapists who would like to work with domentic violence therapists but also is a good reference for who are interested in the field.