Sistema de talleres de contención emocional para padres de hijos con discapacidad intelectual

Abstract

The purpose of the research was to develop a system of emotional support workshops for parents of children with intellectual disabilities. The general objective of the study was to design strategies based on emotional support that allow parents to assimilate their child's condition of intellectual disability. The research problem corresponds to parents who have difficulty accepting their child's intellectual disability, the research object was the emotional difficulty of parents, and the research field was the parents of children with intellectual disabilities. As theoretical methods, the historical-logical, analytical-synthetic, inductive, deductive, systemic, structural and mixed methods were applied. A survey was applied to 26 parents, and an interview to focus groups of 8 parents at random. As a result, it was obtained that 68% of the parents surveyed, at some point have had overwhelming feelings about the life condition that their child with intellectual disabilities has to go through, 28% have had to resort to advice from friends, a 36% of parents have not allowed to vent their emotions, and 40% of them always try to hide their emotions. These results served as the basis for the preparation of the proposal, which through expert judgment obtained 0.95, placing it in the excellent category for Aiken's V value, determining its feasibility and applicability.