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Time to adapt

Memories and effects of burn accidents are often remembered in detail by parents and do not decrease significantly with timexml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

One and a half to five years is enough time for a reasonable, stable mother to adapt to a burn crisis, and if she still shows signs of disturbance at that point, she may have been chronically disturbed before the burn crisis. If so, her disturbance may have in some way contributed to the accident.

 

When the child is burned, most researchers report that the primary parental reaction was fear for the survival of the child, but that this was quickly followed by guilt and general anxiety about the future. Typically 60 per cent of mothers had upset nerves and 16 per cent suffered nervous breakdowns, which was felt to be related to guilt and a loss of mother image. These mothers possessed unconscious hostility towards the burned child. Such hostility stems from guilt and alienation, causing parents to fluctuate between rejection and overprotection of the child. Failure to protect the child from injury results in guilt and this leads to a desire to protect the child even further. This involves spoiling the child to repair the damage done to her and anxiety at any further potential danger to the child, resulting in the mother becoming protective with the child to the extreme, and having a strong desire to warn others of the dangers of burns.
By Bronwen Jones and Charissa Bloomberg
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Page Created By: Gary (admin) 08 July 2004 4:48pm
Page Last Modified: 23 July 2004 9:29am

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