當孩子成為照顧者：照顧精神疾病父母的困境和期望的社會支持

When Children Become Carers: The Difficulties of Caring for Parent with Mental Illness and Their Wishes for Social Support

10.6687/JSDS.202309_(32).0007

袁修文(Esabella Hsiu-Wen Yuan)；古允文(Yeun-wen Ku)

兒少照顧者 ； 父母 ； 精神疾病 ； 社會支持 ； 服 ； young carers ； parents ； mental illness ； social support ； services

社會發展研究學刊

32期（2023 / 09 / 01）

189 - 215

繁體中文;英文

臺灣對於兒少照顧者的研究已逐漸發展，然而對於兒少照顧精神疾病父母的研究仍相對缺乏。這群孩子缺乏社會支持獨自面對照顧的挑戰。本文以質性回顧研究法，深入了解臺灣兒少照顧者童年時期所經歷的照顧困境和期望得到的社會支持。研究發現參與者面對父母無法掌控的情緒行為，經歷逐漸失去與父母情感連結的過程湧現錯綜複雜的感受;參與者認為面對父母突發狀況是極為艱鉅的挑戰，也深刻影響親子關係和學校生活。本研究提出的建議為：一、兒少福利機構提供兒少照顧者適切的服務。二、加強學校支持和公共教育。三、社福體系和政策制定者應確保滿足兒少照顧者和其家庭的社會需求。期待社福體系看見這些孩子和家庭的需要，確保他們能得到所需的資源。

The research of young carers supporting their parent has been developed in Taiwan. There remains relatively limited research on young carers living with families where a parent has mental illness. Children endure caring alone for parents with mental illness entangled with multiple issues with a lack of social support. This study adopted a qualitative method, exploring the retrospective experiences of adults who were young carers undertaking caring responsibilities and wishes for social support throughout their childhood. Findings indicated that the participants had complex feelings when witnessing the parent having uncontrollable emotions and behaviors, experiencing the process of being emotionally unavailable to their parent, participants described dealing with family emergency as great challenging, with a great impact on the parent-child relationship and school life. This study suggests first, child services should provide suitable services for young carers; second, bolstering school support and public education; third, social welfare systems and policymakers ensuring to meet the social needs of young carers and their families. It is hoped that young carers and their families are being recognized and ensure them having access to mainstream resources.

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