Adolescents' Views on Families as Metaphors in Hong Kong: Implications for Pre-Counselling Assessment

Autor/in	Chan, Zenobia C. Y.
Titel	Adolescents' Views on Families as Metaphors in Hong Kong: Implications for Pre-Counselling Assessment
Quelle	In: Children & Society, 27 (2013) 2, S.104-115 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-0605
DOI	10.1111/j.1099-0860.2011.00390.x
Schlagwörter	Adolescent Attitudes; Asian Culture; Foreign Culture; Parent Child Relationship; Figurative Language; Referral; Family Counseling; Self Esteem; Sex Role; Family Relationship; Security (Psychology); Profiles; Case Studies; Questionnaires; Content Analysis; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fremdes; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Family counselling; Familienberatung; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Geschlechterrolle; Security; Psychology; Sicherheit; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Fragebogen; Inhaltsanalyse; Hongkong
Abstract	This interpretative study aims to offer metaphors that describe family meanings from the adolescent's perspective by encouraging them to give a metaphor with their own explanation on a self-administering essay form. This study has three objectives: to explore the family meanings as a metaphor from the Hong Kong adolescent's perspective; to reveal any common and unique features of these metaphors; and to search for the possibilities of collecting metaphors from adolescents as a pre-counselling assessment tool. The 12 participants for this study were referred to me for family counselling because of poor self-esteem, loss of life goals or ineffective relationships with their parents. Based on the 12 metaphors, the following five themes can be discerned: (i) gender role in a family, (ii) Chinese culture in a family, (iii) heat in a family, (iv) security in a family and (v) the family as honey and a loan company. Based on the above five themes, there are some common metaphors (e.g. a warm place, honey, a shelter, a boat shelter, a chick and a hen, a volcano, a fire, an oven and a loan company), trans-cultural and unique metaphors (e.g. a wet market and "Kung Fu" experts), and those that are culturally specified. Both strengths and limitations of collecting and analysing metaphors were discussed. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10