Saturday, July 18, 2020

200725 Parental Burnout: What Is It, Why Does It Matter, and How Could We Treat It?

Title:
Parental Burnout: What Is It, Why Does It Matter, and How Could We Treat It?

Speaker:
林高賢 (Gao-Xian Lin), PhD student, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)

Time:
*注意:本週演講時間略有調整
07/25 (Sat.) 6 am PDT, 7 am MDT, 8 am CDT, 9 am EDT
07/25 (Sat.) 3 pm Belgium (UTC+2), 9 pm Taiwan (UTC+8)

Keywords:
Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Health Psychology, Personality and Individual Difference, Parent, Parenting Stress, Burnout, Parental Role



Abstract:
Parenting can be enjoyable. Nevertheless, it may also lead to stress or even end up in parental burnout— a condition characterized by overwhelming exhaustion related to one’s parental role, emotional distancing from one’s children, and a loss of parental fulfillment. Recent decades have seen drastically parenting culture change: the increasing social pressure on parents and the lower respect or appreciation from children have made parenting increasingly challenging. Unsurprisingly then, it is more often than before that parental resources could not balance the demands. When this condition lasts chronically, parental burnout may be developed. Although parental burnout is still an emerging topic in Psychological Science, it has become a focus of systematic study by more than 100 researchers from 45 countries all over the world. Through these burgeoning studies, I would introduce “parental burnout” and focus on the following questions: (1) what is it, (2) why does it matter, and (3) how could we treat it?

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