A Study On The Practice Of Group Work On Emotional Support For Family Caregivers Of Children With Chronic Disease

Chronic diseases are diseases that endanger human health for a long time.In recent years,the incidence of chronic diseases has gradually shifted from the elderly group to the younger group.Children have also become one of the groups it threatens.If a child in a family suffers from chronic diseases,it will undoubtedly greatly affect the quality of family life.At present,there are very few studies on family caregivers of chronically ill children,and this group needs more attention.Taking care of chronically ill children for a long time makes family caregivers of chronically ill children bear more unimaginable pressure and burden.In addition,they focus on chronically ill children for a long time and ignore their own feelings.The emotional support needs of family caregivers of chronically ill children cannot be effectively met,which is not conducive to the improvement of their personal life quality and the rehabilitation of chronically ill children.However,there are relatively few studies on emotional support for family caregivers of children with chronic diseases.Therefore,this paper takes family caregivers of chronically ill children as the research object,and carries out relevant practical exploration based on social support theory and Bandura learning theory.The aim is to provide emotional support services to family carers who take care of chronically ill children through group social work.First of all,the author during my internship at the hospital,through the way of combination of questionnaire and interview,chronic disease of the inpatient medical building children’s family caregivers prophase investigation,discovered the problems and needs,combined with daily went to room to visit and chronic disease of children’s family caregivers communication,the author found that children’s family caregivers common chronic diseases is relatively lack of emotional support.Family caregivers of children with chronic diseases have problems such as lack of understanding and companionship from family members,similar families and neighbors,lack of opportunities for emotional catharsis and low quality of emotional support,resulting in a low sense of self-identity.Based on this,according to the problems existing in family caregivers of children with chronic diseases,the author formulated the "All the way,you have worked hard!" Group work plan,the whole activity is divided into: "Nice to meet you","says goodbye to worry," common sense in mind "," love speak out "," love all around "," please don’t say goodbye " the six group work activities,content of ice respectively,decompression classroom,medical care knowledge science,painting circle,and wrote a letter,interpretation and application of social support networks,group ".The group made plans based on social support network to help meet the emotional support needs of family caregivers of chronically ill children and establish a long-term emotional support network for caregivers,which achieved good results.The results of group work and intervention for family caregivers of chronically ill children were evaluated by pre-and post-test.From the summary of group work,it can be found that family caregivers of chronically ill children are more satisfied with this group activity.The evaluation results showed that group activities improved the negative emotions of family caregivers,effectively enhanced their sense of self-identity,and effectively met the emotional needs of family caregivers of children with chronic diseases.Therefore,it is feasible to apply group work and social support network theory to family caregivers’ emotional support.