心理学Dissertation案例：神经性厌食症 （anorexia nervosa）

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从父母的视角，通过结构化访谈，本篇dissertation探讨成年神经性厌食症儿童的父母在与医疗保健服务和专业人员互动方面的经验。分析显示，父母在为孩子寻求帮助时遇到了困难，并感到被排除在孩子的治疗之外。父母似乎能够理解他们的经历与他们作为父母的角色有关，并以重申他们父母角色的方式回应他们的经历。

Experiences of parents of people with anorexia nervosa an interpretative phenomenological analysis

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Abstract

Anorexia nervosa can be a chronic, life-threatening illness associated with poor outcomes and considerable stress to the carer. Research on caregiving in mental illness and in anorexia nervosa has found that the relationship between the carer and healthcare professionals can impact on patient outcomes and on caregiver stress. However, there remains a paucity of research which examines carers’ experiences of the carerprofessional relationship in the domain of anorexia. Therefore the aim of this study was to explore the experiences of parents of adult children with anorexia nervosa in relation to their interactions with healthcare services and professionals. In particular, the study was concerned with how parents made sense of their experiences. Semi-structured interviews and interpretative phenomenological analysis (Smith, 1996) were used with five parents to generate themes. The analysis revealed that parents experienced a struggle to secure help for their child and felt excluded from their child’s treatment. Parents appeared to make sense of their experiences in relation to their perceived role as parents and responded to their experiences in ways that reaffirmed their parental role. The latter finding is discussed in relation to a small body of literature on caregiving which highlights that perceptions of parental role are central to understanding how parents make sense of their caregiving experiences. The finding that parents report being excluded from the treatment is discussed in relation to literature on caregiving in mental illness which has consistently found that carers experience exclusion from the treatment process. Experiences of exclusion are discussed with reference to UK policy on caring for an individual with a mental illness. The present study contributes to knowledge and understanding of the experience of caregiving in anorexia nervosa.

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