The enhancement of parental responsibility s juvenile offender through assimilative integrative family counseling base on structural family couseling theory
Abstract:
The purposes of this study were to study the confirmatory elements of the responsibility of parents who had offenders and to study the effects of integrated family counseling on enhancing the responsibility of parents. The sample group used in this study was the parents who have children committed crimes that enter the process of the Juvenile and Family Court. There were two step in this study, step 1, the sample group of 400 people were used to study the responsibility of parents who have offenders. Step 2, the sample group were selected from parents who had offenders with an average level score down of 20 families from step 1 sample, simple random were used into the experimental group and the control group, 10 families each. The experimental group was given the family counseling program 10 times, 60 minutes each, for 5 weeks continuously, while the control group was supervised according to the normal guidelines of the Juvenile and Family Court. The tools used in this research were parental responsibility measurement form developed by the researcher with a reliability of 0.91 and an integrated family counseling program that has been tested by experts. Statistics used in this study were data analysis, confirmatory component analysis and repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) The results can be summarized as follows: 1. The responsibility of parents who have children to commit crimes consists of 6 elements: problem solving of family members , communication of family members, the role of family members, affective responsiveness of family members, behavior control of family members and expectations of family members. The model was consistent with empirical data. 2. The results of integrative family counseling to enhance the responsibility of parents who have offenders found that 2.1 The experimental group of parents had a higher mean score of responsibility than the control group parents with statistical significance at .05 level. 2.2 The experimental group parents had the mean score of responsibility post test and follow up more than pre-test with statistical significance at .05 level