Stay-at-Home Fathers, Depression, and Help-Seeking: A Consensual Qualitative Research Study
Stay-at-Home Fathers, Depression, and Help-Seeking: A Consensual Qualitative Research Study
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10.1037/men0000223
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2020-04-01
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Knox, Sarah
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Caperton, William;Butler, Meghan;Knox, Sarah
有证据表明，男性社会化可能既限制了男性的潜力，导致心理痛苦，又限制了他们应对这种痛苦的方式。虽然我们开始了解男性和父亲的抑郁症。关于全职父亲如何经历抑郁症，以及他们寻求帮助和心理治疗的经历和信念，我们知之甚少。为此，这项定性研究的重点是通过对来自美国各地的12名参与者进行深入访谈，了解SAHF如何经历抑郁和寻求帮助。结果表明，谁经历过抑郁症的SAHFs在他们的任期SAHFs专注于关系的困扰，孤立，失去独立性，社会耻辱，有助于他们的抑郁症。无论是在决定承担SAHF的角色还是决定最终寻求抑郁症的帮助时，他们似乎都保留了为家人提供帮助的高度价值。寻求帮助作为保护和供养其家庭的一种手段的想法似乎与他们对男子气概的描述相一致，这种描述将SAHF的作用重新定义为男子气概。最后，越来越多的少数男性似乎正在建立线上和线下的社交网络，以支持他们的身份感，并作为应对他们面临的独特压力的手段。这些结果具有启示意义！或治疗师，医生，公共卫生官员和SAHF的家庭成员。
Evidence suggests that masculine socialization may serve both to restrict men's potential in ways that lead to psychological distress, while also restricting the ways in which they respond to such distress. Although we are beginning to understand masculine and paternal depression. little is known about how stay-at-home fathers (SAHFs) experience depression, nor their experiences and beliefs regarding help-seeking and psychotherapy. To that end, this qualitative study focused on how SAHFs experience depression and help-seeking via in-depth interviews with 12 participants from across the United States. Results indicated that SAHFs who have experienced depression during their tenure as SAHFs focused on relational distress, isolation, loss of independence, and social stigma as contributing to their depression. They appeared to retain a high value on providing for their families, both in the decision to take on the role of SAHF and in deciding to ultimately seek help for depression. The idea of seeking help as a means to protect and provide for their families appeared congruent with their descriptions of masculinity, which recast the SAHF role as being definitionally masculine. Finally, this growing minority of men appeared to be building social networks both on- and offline to support their sense of identity and as a means for coping with the unique stressors they face. These results have implications !Or therapists, medical practitioners, public health officials, and family members of SAHFs.