The purpose of this article is to study sense of parental competence in parents who experienced abuse in childhood. Many studies have shown that the kind of abuse (physical, emotional, sexual, ...neglect) that the parent experienced in childhood and the co-occurrence of several types of abuse affect the sense of parental competence. In particular, we focused on the difference between sexual abuse and other kinds of abuse. The instruments used to collect data were the French versions of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, which assesses abuse, and the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale, which assesses efficacy and satisfaction. These questionnaires were designed to quantitatively evaluate the kind of abuse experienced during childhood and the sense of parental competence. We collected 828 valid protocols. The statistical analyses show that sense of parental competence is lower in parents who were abused during their childhood than in those who were not. More specifically, our results show that these parents feel less satisfaction, one of the two components of the sense of parental competence.
The objective of this study was to measure, via an online survey, the peritraumatic impact of COVID-19-related lockdown measures on parents and their sense of parental competence, as well as the link ...with their children’s peritraumatic distress. We investigated the links between the distress felt by the parent and the distress felt by the child in the lockdown from March to May 2020. Participants were 287 parents and 161 children. The results of our study indicated that there is a significant association between the parents’ and the children’s peritraumatic stress. We also found a significant relationship between the sense of parental competence and the trauma suffered as a result of the lockdown. We also showed that people who usually felt more stressed have lower peritraumatic distress. In addition, the data indicated that mothers were more affected than fathers by the lockdown, whereas there was no difference between girls and boys in the sample of children. The peritraumatic feelings appeared to be more related to the difficulty of combining teleworking with the daily management of children than to the fear of the virus itself. All these results bear witness to the differences in the experience of lockdown between mothers and fathers, and the impact on their children’s well-being.
Ce travail de recherche a pour objectif principal d’évaluer l’efficacité de la thérapie brève en fonction du motif de consultation.
Nous avons analysé 110 protocoles complétés, et nos résultats ...mettent en évidence que les patients se montrent en grande majorité satisfaits de la thérapie brève, quel que soit leur motif de consultation (souffrance relationnelle, liée à une pathologie ou encore liée au contexte professionnel ou scolaire) et qu’elle soit mise en place dans l’intérêt d’un enfant ou d’un adulte. Elle évalue les effets à moyen terme (3 mois) de la thérapie brève en distinguant les thérapies mises en place dans l’intérêt d’un adulte ou d’un enfant et tenant compte du motif de consultation (souffrance relationnelle, liée à une pathologie ou encore liée au contexte professionnel ou scolaire).
Dans notre échantillon, 66,7 % des personnes se disent très satisfaites de la thérapie. Au total, 3,7 % ne sont pas satisfaites et 9,6 % n’ont pas d’avis. Les patients ont rapporté qu’ils estiment que leur difficulté est significativement moindre 3 mois après la fin de la thérapie, en comparaison à juste après la fin de la thérapie. Il existe des corrélations significatives et positives entre le degré de satisfaction concernant la thérapie et les quatre aspects relationnels que nous avons mesurés.
Les résultats que nous avons obtenus postulent que les patients se montrent en grande majorité satisfaits de la thérapie brève, quels que soient leur motif de consultation (souffrance relationnelle, liée à une pathologie ou encore liée au contexte professionnel ou scolaire) ou la personne pour qui la thérapie est mise en place (enfant ou adulte). Le changement engendré par la thérapie brève se maintient dans le temps (après 3 mois), et il continue de se produire dans le temps au point que le problème est décrit par les patients comme significativement moindre 3 mois après la fin de la thérapie, en comparaison à juste après la fin de la thérapie. Enfin, les aspects relationnels de la thérapie que nous avons évalués jouent un rôle majeur dans le résultat de la thérapie et ce, pour tous les patients quels que soient les motifs de consultation ou la personne pour qui la thérapie est mise en place. En effet, plus les aspects relationnels sont positifs et plus le patient continue d’appliquer les conseils donnés par le thérapeute, revient consulter en cas de besoin ou encore diminue le nombre de rechutes.
La thérapie brève et stratégique s’avère efficace à court et moyen terme, et ce, peu importe le motif de consultation. Les aspects relationnels jouent un rôle majeur dans l’efficacité de la thérapie brève et stratégique.
The main objective of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of brief therapy according to the reason for consultation.
We analyzed 110 completed protocols and our results show that the vast majority of patients are satisfied with brief therapy, regardless of the reason for their consultation (relational suffering, pathology-related suffering, or suffering related to a professional or school context) and regardless of whether it is implemented for the benefit of a child or an adult. We evaluate the medium-term effects (three months) of the brief therapy by distinguishing between therapies implemented in the interest of an adult or a child and taking into account the reason for consultation (relational suffering, linked to a pathology, or linked to a professional or school context).
In our sample, 66.7% of the people reported they were very satisfied with the therapy. In total, 3.7% were not satisfied and 9.6% had no opinion. Patients reported that they felt that their difficulty was significantly less three months after the end of therapy, compared to their level of difficulty at the moment of the therapy's completion. There were significant and positive correlations between satisfaction with therapy and the four relational aspects we measured.
The results we obtained postulate that the vast majority of patients are satisfied with brief therapy, regardless of the reason for their consultation (relational suffering, pathological suffering, or suffering related to a professional or school context) or the person for whom the therapy is implemented (child or adult). The change generated by brief therapy is maintained over time (after three months), and grows over time, to the point that the problem is described by the patients as significantly more manageable three months after the end of the therapy, compared to the moment of the therapy's completion. Finally, the relational aspects of therapy that we assessed play a major role in the outcome of therapy for all patients, regardless of the reasons for consultation or the person for whom therapy is implemented. Indeed, the more positive the relational aspects are, the more the patient continues to apply the advice given by the therapist, comes back to consult when needed, or decreases the number of relapses.
Brief and strategic therapy is effective in the short and medium term, regardless of the reason for consultation. Relational aspects play a major role in the effectiveness of BST.
The objective of this study was to measure, via an online survey, the peritraumatic impact of COVID-19-related lockdown measures on parents and their sense of parental competence, as well as the link ...with their children’s peritraumatic distress. We investigated the links between the distress felt by the parent and the distress felt by the child in the lockdown from March to May 2020. Participants were 287 parents and 161 children. The results of our study indicated that there is a significant association between the parents’ and the children’s peritraumatic stress. We also found a significant relationship between the sense of parental competence and the trauma suffered as a result of the lockdown. We also showed that people who usually felt more stressed have lower peritraumatic distress. In addition, the data indicated that mothers were more affected than fathers by the lockdown, whereas there was no difference between girls and boys in the sample of children. The peritraumatic feelings appeared to be more related to the difficulty of combining teleworking with the daily management of children than to the fear of the virus itself. All these results bear witness to the differences in the experience of lockdown between mothers and fathers, and the impact on their children’s well-being.
L’objectif de la présente étude était de mesurer, via une enquête en ligne, l’impact péritraumatique
des mesures de confinement liées au covid-19 sur les parents et sur leur
sentiment de compétence parentale ainsi que le lien avec la détresse péri-traumatique
de leurs enfants. Nous avons étudié les liens entre la détresse ressentie par le parent
et celle ressentie par l’enfant dans la situation de confinement de mars à mai 2020.
Nous avons obtenu la participation de 287 parents et de 161 de leurs enfants. Les
résultats de notre étude indiquent qu’il existe un lien significatif entre le stress péritraumatique
des parents et celui des enfants. Nous observons également un lien
significatif entre le sentiment de compétence parentale et le traumatisme subi suite au
confinement. Nous montrons également que les personnes habituellement plus
stressées présentent une détresse péri-traumatique plus faible. En outre, les données
indiquent que les mères sont davantage touchées que les pères par cette situation de
confinement alors qu’il n’y a pas de différence entre les filles et les garçons dans
l’échantillon des enfants. Le sentiment péri-traumatique apparaît plus comme lié à la
difficulté de combiner le télétravail et la gestion quotidienne des enfants que la peur du
virus en lui-même. Tous ces résultats, très récents et novateurs, témoignent des
différences dans le vécu du confinement entre les mères et les pères, avec en outre un
retentissement sur le bien-être des enfants.
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