He/She is not heavy?-The analysis of caring responsibilities for sibling of adults with mental retardation

• Main Authors: Li-Hua Zeng, 曾麗華
• Other Authors: Hsu, Su-Pin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00353085960521794235

碩士 === 靜宜大學 === 社會工作與兒童少年福利學系碩士班 === 99 === The study aimed to investigate the cared responsibilities for normal siblings of the adults with mental retardation. The goals of this study were to realize how and what normal siblings of adults with mental retardation thought about the care responsibilities, to realize the factors that affected siblings’ actions in terms of care responsibilities, and to realize the coping behaviors and the needs of siblings while taking care responsibilities, and to realize the needs of siblings taking caring responsibilities. Intensive interviews were used for data collecting. The subjects of this study included four siblings of adults with mental retardation, a couple of one of their siblings, and the one with mental retardation. The results of this study showed that parents’ care behaviors affected the attending conditions taken by normal siblings. The interaction among siblings in a family would affect how they involved in care. Sex of siblings had effects on the way they attended. The normal siblings would not think about the issues of care arrangement for their disabled siblings until they took over the care responsibilities. The factors that affected normal siblings to take over care responsibilities were the social anticipation, ethics standard, and other normal siblings in the family refusing to take over the care responsibilities. With different sexes, sibling provided different attending contents. However, how they perceived their disabled siblings decided their care taking. The difficulties they faced were categorized as individual domain, family domain and society domain. Based on the families, the researcher provided suggestions to respond the needs and demands of families with individuals with mental retardation.