Explaining the counseling model of preventing parental psychological annoyance transmission to adolescent children: A grounded theory

Subject Areas : Consulting

Maryam Maadi Esfahan ¹ , Masoumeh Esmaeili ² , somayeh kazemian ³ , Ebrahim Naeimi ⁴

1 - Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Professor, Counseling Department, Psychology and Education Faculty, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Associate Professor, Counseling Department, Psychology and Education Faculty, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Associate Professor, Counseling Department, Psychology and Education Faculty, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-02-01 Accepted : 2022-06-19 Published : 2024-08-04

Keywords: psychological annoyance, intergenerational transmission, adolescent, life review, Grounded theory,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to determine the process, technical and content characteristics of the model of counseling for the prevention of transmission of parental psychological annoyance. The qualitative study was conducted with the Grounded theory approach and through purposive and theoretical sampling. The study population was selected from parents aged 35 to 50 years with adolescent children living in Tehran who participated in the interview voluntarily. Using in-depth and semi-structured interviews, data were collected and after the attainment of theoretical saturation in the eighteenth interview, Glaserian method was used to analyze the data. The results of data analysis were categorized into four components: annoyance due to communication space, annoyance due to interactions, annoyance due to educational method and annoyance due to living situation along with its perception factors. Then, based on the obtained data, the model of counseling to prevent the transmission of parental psychological annoyance to children, was designed in the form of six processes, including empathetic and trustworthy Relationship; Assessment and evaluation; Facing resistance; informing; Introducing a new ontology with an emphasis on the principle of conscious choice and responsibility; The action based on a new perspective and reinforcement. According to the findings, in the obtained model, client is expected to be able to review the range of his lived experiences from a developmental perspective and based on a different ontology and create a healthier parenting based on the modification of the cycle of transmission of annoyance from the original family while relieving the experienced annoyances.

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