The purpose of this study is to analyze the efficiency of mentor program for single parent's kid through reducing or relieving maladjustment factors like aggression, depression and anxiety, by social support and experience.
Social Welfare Center of ...
The purpose of this study is to analyze the efficiency of mentor program for single parent's kid through reducing or relieving maladjustment factors like aggression, depression and anxiety, by social support and experience.
Social Welfare Center of ○○ city, Gyeonggi-do helped to choose schoolage children of single-parent families for this purpose, and they took a prior-test on anxiety, depression and aggression followed by mentor program which was planned, practiced, estimated, investigated, daily-recorded, analyzed and case-studied by post-care examination.
The result of observation, evaluation and case studies about the whole study process of planning-exercising-estimation was analyzed in its quality, while the result of post-examination and their mental and character features, namely the factors of their maladjustment, were analyzed to measure the efficiency of studied children after they were applied to the mentor program. The followings are the results of studying efficiency of such mentor program.
Firstly, studied kids displayed less anger, agitation and slang-speaking by understanding his or her own mental status and by applying the technique to deal with aggressive mentality to daily lives. Especially, they obtained a way to soundly express anger, proving their physical and lingual aggression as well as animosity reduced.
Secondly, role model made the studied children show improved relations and self-estimation, and relieved maladjustment or problematic actions such as feeling of helplessness and fatigue. Most of all, bumping and acting programs improved their sociality.
Thirdly, there was a change of anxiety after the program, by better academic performance as well as close and positive relationship with same-ages, which led to relieve mental or acknowledged inferiority complex, over self-obsession and uneasiness to face people.
The followings are practical meaning of the study result.
Firstly, mentor program was proved effective to a single-parent kid who cower on weak social support, allowing them various social relationship through cultural or same-ages camps which are suitable welfare program for schoolage children. To build a support system for sound development and growth of them, detailed manual and activated mentor program are needed.
Secondly, single-parent was stressed to take the charge of living and rearing at the same time. Although single-parent families need supportive connection with local community, they are alienated and isolated from useful services and programs. Empowerment-support for single-parent family's mental and emotional security is also required. Therefore, consistent parent training is needed such as rearing information about parent role, social education and social program as well as children development and how to teach them, as a support service for single-parent families.
Thirdly, the quality of current mentor system is problematic in that it is charged volunteer service consisting of university students, welfare officers and directing professors, which lack of systemic training and management. Although current university students majoring in social welfare would have practical clinical experience, intensive case study and home-visiting interview, consistency of those activities are guaranteed. The program is considered meaningful to both of study participants and study subjects, in that it allows them to participate in the society and to feel their own value and chance to grow up. However, a specialized and systemic management and supervision such as thorough pre-study and preparing as well as understanding development features of the child, case management and counsel, are needed for better performance of the program.
Consequently, this author proposes to use this mentor program as basic activity data and manual in the field of children's welfare practice, for the children who need protection and emotional support.