Parent-Child Communication and Psychological Well Being of Drug Users: Basis for Psycho-Spiritual Therapy

Abstract

      This study was conducted in order to determine the relationship of parent-child communication and psychological well-being of the respondents. Specifically, it sought to determine the level of parent-child communication and psychological well-being of the respondents; tested the significant difference between parent child communication and psychological well-being of the respondents when grouped according to age, sex, and educational background, number of siblings, religion, and work before, monthly family income, educational attainment, and job occupation; tested the significant relationship between parent-child communication and psychological well-being of the respondents and proposed a psycho-spiritual therapy to improve family relationships. Descriptive and correlational-development research design was employed involving 70 drug users in the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology one Province in MIMAROPA Region. Three standardized were used and data gathered were treated as instruments using different statistical tools.

Results showed that the respondents find their parents as someone who can be leant upon and talked to about clarifications, God, financial matters and education. Respondents have the capacity to live a happy, satisfying and meaningful life, think of the family future, value family, want to grow and serve as provider. The study recommends constant communication between parents and child and a psycho-spiritual therapy that focuses on God, family values, personal growth and financial stability.