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Young Children who Visit Their Jailed Fathers

其他書名	A Pilot Study of Children's Representations of Family Through Drawings
出版	University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2017
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Oc9_0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Over five million children in the United States have experienced the incarceration of a co-resident parent during their childhood (Murphey & Cooper, 2015). However, little is known about the loss children may experience when their parent becomes incarcerated. The current pilot study examines ambiguous loss through attachment-based family drawings of children ages 3-6 with an incarcerated father (N = 16). Using data from a larger study examining children of incarcerated parents, this study examines: what the child has been told about their father's incarceration, family drawings collected at both the child's home and a jail visit, and children's confusion at the jail visit. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted in order to examine potential relations between what the child has been told about their father's incarceration, their family drawings, and the child's affect during a jail visit with their incarcerated father. Results indicated that most children (n = 12, 75%) were told ambiguous statements about their fathers' incarceration and over half of the children (63%, n = 10) showed confusion at the jail visit. Results indicated no correlation between ambiguous statements about the father's incarceration and showing confusion at the jail or children's drawings. However, children's family drawings may present elements of figure absence and emotional avoidance, which could reflect elements of ambiguous loss. Keywords: incarcerated fathers, young children, ambiguous loss, family drawing