Narrative analysis on counseling psychology interns dealing with the experiences of clients suicide

• Main Authors: Wei-Yun Hsu, 許維耘
• Other Authors: Pei-Yi Li
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74133159411084771930

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系 === 101 === The purpose of this study was to explore the counseling psychology interns’ experiences, subjective demands and adjustment process when they dealt with clients’ suicide and to understand the impact of those cases on their personal lives and professional development. In this study, participants was three counseling psychology interns who have experienced clients’ suicide. The narrative analysis method is used and through the presentation of the story made that the experiences of the study participants appeared. The methods “ holism-content” and “category – content” are both used to analyze the data, the results and findings are as follows: 1.In the process of suicide cases interview, counseling psychology interns paid the cost of caring, who had disenfranchised grief experiences through the unique role and also experienced the death anxiety caused by the suicide situation. When the clients suicided, the counseling psychology interns showed grief of the bereaved families and specialist, and also responded to the impact of suicide through bargain. At the end, the counseling psychology interns probably cannot know whether their clients were dead or alive after suicide, it made them drop into the ambiguous loss and unresolved grief. 2.With the context developments of various stages of clients' suicide experiences, the counseling psychology interns also had different subjective demands and adaptation states. At the start of contacting suicide crises, they need professional knowledge to deal with crisis intervention and keep the balance between helping others and self-care. Once the counseling began, the counseling psychology interns have to keep sensitive their own emotional states, it is necessary to have an overall safety and supportable environment and also an internship system resource to assist them in response to the heavy pressure from the crisis and self-care. After experienced these suicide cases, the counseling psychology interns need companions in the early trauma and bear in mind that they are not alone to face the situation. After that they need to clarify the confusion of the suicide cases, in order to regain the order from chaos and positive intervention from intrinsic and extrinsic resources. There are four steps that reflect the counseling psychology interns' adaptation processes in response to the suicide impact:(1)repeatedly writing and narrative;(2)Accomplishment of unfinished business;(3)Transfer from the relationship to inner link,(4)Rebuilding the personal pace of life. 3.After experienced the suicide cases, the original faith of the counseling psychology interns will be deconstructed and reconstructed. They saw that the help that they could provide is not almighty but limited, then they started to develop professional identify and positively dealing with the suicide crises, they also re-integrated their belief of helping suicide clients. At the same time, they re-inspected their own attitude toward death and life's value, transformed their awareness of life into a real action, and they gradually managed to coexist with death seeing that the death or being alive are two sides of the same coin. Finally, according to the finding and results of this research, researchers will have some advices to the counseling psychology interns, school training systems, internship organization and other future researches.