The Enhancement of Parental Responsibility’s Juvenile Offender Through Assimilative Integrative Family Counseling Based on Structural Family Counseling Theory

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study the elements of parents’ responsibility and to enhancement the responsibility of parents with integrated family counseling. Which is an experimental research divided into 2 steps. Step 1 is the study of the factors of responsibility. The sample group is parents who have children offending and entering the process of the Juvenile and Family Court for 400 person. Step 2 is to enhancement of responsibility of parents with integrative family counseling. The sample group is parents who have children offending and entering the process of the Central Juvenile and Family Court with 20 parents’ moderate responsibility levels. With simple random sampling into the experimental group and the control group for 10 families each group. The tools used were the parents’ responsibility measure of 37 items with the value of .91 and family counseling programs developed by the researcher. Statistics for analysis is confirm factor analysis and repeated variance analysis.

The results of this research revealed that The parents’ responsibility component has 6 factors : solving problems of family members, communication of family members, roles of family members, emotional responses of family members, controlling the behavior of family members and expectations. And the enhancing the responsibility of parents found that parents who receive counseling have an average difference in parents’ responsibility scores with parents who are not consulted during the post-trial period with statistical significance at .05 level and parents who received integrative family counseling has mean scores of parents’ responsibility in the post-test period were different from the pre-trial period with statistical significance at .05 level.