자살시도를 하는 고등학생에 대한 가족치료 사례연구

초록

This study, focused on a family therapy case on a male highschool student, examinedcrisis situation related to suicide, responses from the family, family-related factors thataffected crisis situation and the therapist’s intervention method and effectiveness. As aresult, conversation held among the family members was not functional and the childrenwere emotionally suppressed due to dysfunctional communication of and continuousconflicts between the parents. The client was compared to his sister by his parents andwas treated as a scapegoat in the family. The therapist scrutinized the parents’family-of-origin and dysfunctional communication method and suggested them a new communication method. Moreover, through probing relationships between parent and child and between two children, the therapist induced insight for improving family interrelationships by helping the parents recognize their children’s situation and strengthened the sibling subsystem. As a result of intervention, the parents became cognizant of their own dysfunctional communication method and relationships with their family-of-origin, and the child’s suicidal behavior gradually reduced after employing distinct boundaries and functional communication method.

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