Citation

Voll R. Prax. Kinderpsychol. Kinderpsychiatr. 1993; 42(9): 331-338.

Vernacular Title

Der Scham-Schuld-Sorge-Komplex bei Eltern von Kindern nach Schadel-Hirn-Trauma.

Affiliation

Rehabilitationsklinik für Kinder und Jugendliche.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Verlag Fur Medizinische Psychologie)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8295856

Abstract

The care complex of parents of brain damaged children represents a defense mechanism against the parents' shame-guilt-dilemma. The care complex does not meet with a coping behaviour being beneficial to the children, but demands rather too much of such children and adolescents. There is overprotection, a changed emotional acceptance of the child and a changed method of upbringing together with a strict control over achievements at school and therapies still necessary. Variants of the parents' subjective guilt with regard to the child are described in several case vignettes. Methods of the psychotherapeutic treatment of parents are discussed. Finally, an outlook in the consequences of the care complex as regards the self-image and self-acceptance in adolescence are given.

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