A Study On Filial Therapy To Parenting Stress Of The Migrant Children’s Parents

With the further expansion of the scale of the social floating population,the trend of family mobility is obvious.The growth environment,right to education,and social integration of migrant children are receiving increasing attention.At the same time,the need for parent education and parenting stress of migrant children’s parent should be taken seriously.This study combines the group characteristics of migrant children’s parents,intervention targets migrant children’s parents in D community which a typical floating population city in Shenzhen,intervention using the filial therapy mode,aiming to explore its effectiveness in alleviating parenting stress of migrant children’s parents.The author conducted a questionnaire survey on 132 parents of migrant children in D Community and 9 representative parents in the community were interviewed.The survey result shows that migrant children’s parents in D community was generally have a high level of parenting stress,the survey subjects generally have the annoyance of poor parent-child communication,anxiety of improper parenting,and the powerlessness of children’s "problem behavior".The main causes of parenting stress include a lack of awareness and ability in emotional communication,a lack of scientific educating methods and skills,and a lack of reasonable cognition of children’s "problem behavior".Based on the analysis of the current situation and causes of parenting stress on migrant children’s parents in D community,this paper uses the filial therapy and family systems theory as the basis,adopts filial therapy intervention model of "game participation feeling sharing skill induction" to design the scheme.By using the method of single-group pre-test and post-test design,parents of migrant children were recruited in community D to test the effectiveness of this model.The test results indicate that the post-test scores of parenting stress and related dimensions of all parents involved in the intervention have decreased compared to the pre-test scores,it is proved that filial therapy is effective in relieving parenting stress of migrant children’s parents.