The Reflection of Parents in Children as a Source of the Child's Susceptibility to Trauma

Annotation The final qualifying work (master's thesis) on the topic "Reflection of parents in children as a source of a child's susceptibility to trauma" contains 98 pages, including 7 figures, 12 tables, 103 literature sources and 6 appendices. In this work, approaches to the study of the phenomenology of child-parent relations are studied, in particular, the problem of a child's susceptibility to trauma under the influence of the image of parents reflected in the child's psyche is considered. The issue of the conditionality of the type of frustrating reactions of a child by the style of behavior of a parent in a conflict situation is particularly considered. The study was conducted in the form of an experiment using the "Reflected subjectivity Method" by V.A. Petrovsky. The methods used in the experiment were: "Thomas-Kilmann – TKI test" to determine the profile of parents' response strategies in conflict situations, the test "CMAS Scale of explicit anxiety" to determine the level of anxiety in primary school children, the projective technique "Rosenzweig Frustration drawing test" (adult version) in the classic version and in the author's version modifications by V.A. Petrovsky, as well as the classic children's version of the technique. 14 child-parent dyads participated in the study; totally 28 people were examined. The results obtained allow us to confirm the hypothesis about the influence of parent's conflictogenicity on the child's frustration susceptibility as well as the presence of a relationship between the dynamics of parent's conflictogenicity and the dynamics of their child's feelings of guilt and responsibility. The advantages of the work include the practical novelty of the research, the complex design of the experimental part, the use of a combination of classical and modern techniques, a critical analysis of the problems posed, the formulation of the author's conclusions and recommendations.