Narrative Analysis Of Children's Psychological Development After Parents' Divorce

In recent decades,China's social structure in the transformation stage,bringing the population flow,people's ideas are changing,the change of family values results in the change of family form in a diversified situation,divorced families is one of them,and more and more attention from all circles of society.At present,there are a lot of studies on the influence of single parent families and divorce on their children,but no one is standing at the angle of school-age children to listen to their feelings.The purpose of this paper is through children's own words who are living in a divorced single parent family,to show how much does parents divorce impact on children;what is the effect on children's self esteem and interpersonal interaction;to analysis the growth of children mentality and to heal them with professional social work methods;to let the children learn how to reconciliate with their parents in this process and put down the knot in their heart;to appeal people in the society to pay more attention to their own marriage,and to avoid causing irreparable harm to the family and children.This paper uses the method of narrative analysis,interviewing four children in the primary school who from the broken original family which suffered divorce and to explore their inner world.The four children surveyed after the divorce and some are generational parenting,some with one parent and grandparents live together,and some live in the recombinational family.The social worker uses the iceberg theory of the Satir family therapy in the interview process.This theory contains seven aspects,they are the respondent's behavior,coping style,feelings,opinions,expectations,desire and self of mining.I summed up their coping attitude,to let the children describe the relationship between their parents and the important third aspect,the feeling after parents divorce and the evaluation of themselves.The worker in the interview also uses a reflexive-therapeutic point of view,doing a participant observation,mixing the worker's own experience and children's experience together,to listen to the child narrative,but also aware of their own,to change the children's ideas,and that the author can affect the child;In the same way,as the worker experiences the world of children,they also influence the understanding of the world in the parents' divorced children,so that workers can better help children to heal themselves.At the end of the article,the author makes a reflection and discussion on the research.Through research and analysis,the worker summed up how to use the narrative analysis of healing: one is serious and careful;the second is to focus on the narrator's distress;the third is to use the perspective of advantages,certainly the narrator;the fourth is to open up the narrator.The author also expounds the limitations of this study,and in view of the impact of divorce on children,and put forward some suggestions on three aspects: the school,social work practice and social atmosphere or civic education.