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mful impact of permissive parenting on psycho-social psihosocialno zdravje v otroštvu in v mladosti | psychosocial health in childhood and youth
development of child and youth
Sebastjan Kristovič
Alma Mater Europaea – ECM, Slovenska ulica 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
The permissive paradigm in parenting and the educational process puts the
child in the epicenter of the adult world (parents, kindergarten, school ...).
Everything turns around satisfying children's wishes and needs. The conse-
quences are several and multi-layered. Due to the "child-shaped" and to many
out-school activities, we are facing now days the generations of bored, tired
and burned-out children / adolescents. Many studies have shown that these
are generations of children with very low self-image, self-esteem and self-re-
spect, in a serious existential and identity crisis, with high psychological dis-
tress and illnesses, being unfit and unprepared for real and thoughtful life. In
Logotherapy there are three different symptomatic areas of crisis of sense
(meaning): 1. aggression (at physical or psychical level – toward itself or to-
ward other), 2. depression and 3. different forms of addiction (chemical and
un-chemical). Such symptomatic comprises almost all behavioral and spiritual
distress of modern child/youngster.
The main purpose of this paper is to show, from the logoterapeutic point of
view, the key aspects of the harmful impact/effects of the permissive para-
digm on mental health and overall psychosocial development. Too often the
child is perceived reductionisticly as mostly cognitive / rational being, and not
as an indivisible whole of the physical, mental and spiritual dimensions. In the
»White Book«, the holistic approach is mentioned at several places, but the
content covers only the minimalist declarative-theoretical level, instead of the
concrete, practical and the pragmatic one.
Keywords: parenting, logotherapy, logo-pedagogy, mental health,
psycho-social health
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development of child and youth
Sebastjan Kristovič
Alma Mater Europaea – ECM, Slovenska ulica 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
The permissive paradigm in parenting and the educational process puts the
child in the epicenter of the adult world (parents, kindergarten, school ...).
Everything turns around satisfying children's wishes and needs. The conse-
quences are several and multi-layered. Due to the "child-shaped" and to many
out-school activities, we are facing now days the generations of bored, tired
and burned-out children / adolescents. Many studies have shown that these
are generations of children with very low self-image, self-esteem and self-re-
spect, in a serious existential and identity crisis, with high psychological dis-
tress and illnesses, being unfit and unprepared for real and thoughtful life. In
Logotherapy there are three different symptomatic areas of crisis of sense
(meaning): 1. aggression (at physical or psychical level – toward itself or to-
ward other), 2. depression and 3. different forms of addiction (chemical and
un-chemical). Such symptomatic comprises almost all behavioral and spiritual
distress of modern child/youngster.
The main purpose of this paper is to show, from the logoterapeutic point of
view, the key aspects of the harmful impact/effects of the permissive para-
digm on mental health and overall psychosocial development. Too often the
child is perceived reductionisticly as mostly cognitive / rational being, and not
as an indivisible whole of the physical, mental and spiritual dimensions. In the
»White Book«, the holistic approach is mentioned at several places, but the
content covers only the minimalist declarative-theoretical level, instead of the
concrete, practical and the pragmatic one.
Keywords: parenting, logotherapy, logo-pedagogy, mental health,
psycho-social health
67
