Psychological and Emotional Capacity Strengthening Program Development and Effectiveness Study for Independence of Single Mothers with Children

摘要

The purpose of this program is for single mothers to improve confidence about roles as parents and strengthen personal capacity to have a sense of independence through the processes of self-exploration, child nurturing method learning and making relationships with regional society. As the first stage of the study, literature review on single mothers with children was conducted. Next, interviews were conducted on five single mothers with children living in Cheon-an, one of the representative cities in the Korean Central Region to investigate and analyze program demand. Based on literature review and investigated demand in the third stage, a 5 session program with the goal of promoting psychological and emotional stability to promote independence of single mothers with children was developed. Finally, the program developed for single mothers with children was operated and conducted and the program effectiveness was analyzed. The developed 5 session program was progressed for 5 weeks from July 2015, 1 session a week, the verification of effectiveness was done through qualitative research for the five person small-group and the perceived personal changes were figured out through interviews after the end of each session and program. The reason the name of this program is ?the wings of mother?s is because mothers must be wings for children and for the three possible mothers must have strength and the significance is in the hope that the program content will help the strong wings of mothers. Upon the interview results to understand the needs on this program, it was shown that unmarried mothers wanted to develop the relationship and the communication skills such as relationship building with others, communication with communities and so on. To live the independent and autonomous life, nurturing unmarried mothers wanted to build the relationship with surrounding environment first, therefore, the programs was developed with building relationships with families and communities based on this. Ecological viewpoints were used as the theoretical basis of this program. In the result of the analysis of changes by session of the program participants, it became a chance for them to clearly figure out themselves and through honest communication with single mothers with children in similar conditions, the created a sense of togetherness and stated that the gained confidence. Also for them it became a chance to realize that they are not problematic people but independent women and a chance to seriously think about what kind of parent they must be for their children and was found they had created motivation to pioneer life as an independent single mother with children.