Intervention In Parent-child Relationship Of College Students: Using Naikan Therapy

Parent-child relationship is the first interpersonal relationship for everyone. Itcontributes to one’s behavior and character. In this qualitative study, we tried to figure outwhether daily Naikan therapy has influence on college students’ parent-child relationship.It may be helpful to enrich the present study. What’s more, it can provide new ideas intoschool counseling, mental health education and gratitude education.17college students conducted daily Naikan therapy. After the daily Naikan experience,depth interview was used to collect data. Based on the grounded theory, QSR Nvivo7.0was used to analyse the data. The result shows that daily Naikan therapy do has influenceon college students’ parent-child relationship.1.It turned out that Naikan experience isdifferent during the early, middle and late Naikan.2.Naikan experience can be divided intocognition, emotion and action.3.New forms of cognition, emotion and action come outafter Naikan experience. The cognition and emotion which been had during the Naikanexperience influence the new forms. After the data analysis, this study constructive fourmodels:(1) college students’ parent-child relationship before-Naikan-model;(2) collegestudents’ parent-child relationship during-Naikan-model;(3) college students’ parent-childrelationship after-Naikan-model;(4) college students’ parent-child relationship dynamicmodel. The PCRT, the FACESII-CV tests were used for evaluation both before and afterthe Naikan therapy. The result of the PCRT revealed significant difference at the level ofaverage number in nine types of parent-child relationship, besides the nervous type. Theresult of the FACESII-CV showed significant difference in the dimension of degree ofdissatisfaction of family cohesion and adaptive of discontent, that is, suggest thatintervening with daily Naikan therapy on degree of dissatisfaction of family cohesion andadaptive of discontent acquired good result.From the perspective of psychological intervention, this study aimed at finding out theinfluence that daily Naikan therapy has on college students’ parent-child relationship.theresult suggest a new way for psychology counseling. It may also have benefit on spreading Naikan therapy in colleges.