FATHERHOOD’S SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE IN THE FACE OF ADOLESCENT CHILDREN’ DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND SUICIDE ATTEMPT
FATHERHOOD’S SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE IN THE FACE OF ADOLESCENT CHILDREN’ DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND SUICIDE ATTEMPT

Summary/Abstract: “Fatherhood’s subjective experience in the face of adolescent children’ depressive symptomatology and suicide attempt”. The fatherhood’s experience of living with a teenage son or daughter who presents depressive symptomatology and has tried to commit suicide constitutes a subjective experience in and of itself. For the father, these adverse conditions represent a challenge in his constituted role and cause an emotional impact which must be analysed by considering his subjective constitution. The aim of this research is to explore this experience by using a phenomenological qualitative approach. To do that, semi-structured interviews and the application of a test of incomplete sentences were applied to parents whose adolescent children received ambulatory care after a first suicide attempt in a psychiatric hospital in Peru. The results show that participants experience various emotions that involve impotence, anger, sadness, guilt, and relief around three stages: the onset of symptoms, attendance at a psychiatric hospital and the perception of remission of the symptoms. It was found that although at the beginning the fathers find it difficult to get involved with affection with their younger children, they are able to recover the bond through of the reconstitution and reorganization of their role.

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