Abstract:
This research has two stages. Stage 1 was to study the factors affecting the acceptance of parents with transgender children. The samples were 400 parents with transgender children World Health Organization (WHO), 2015 were studying in high school academic year 2560 from the secondary school under the Ministry of Education in Nonthaburi province that derived from two- stage sampling. The instruments were a questionnaire to assess the factors affecting the acceptance of parents with transgender children composing of 5 elements: parental awareness, social influence, expectations of parents, parental features and family relationship. The reliability was 0.71, 0.79, 0.71, 0.78 and 0.73, respectively. The questionnaire of the acceptance of parents with transgender children with confidence at .81. The data was analyzed with basic statistics and Model MIMIC. Stage 2 was to study the effect of an assimilative family counseling on the acceptance of parent. The samples consisted of 22 families World Health Organization (WHO), 2015 were ranked from low to high acceptance scores and selected according to the criteria for equality. They were divided into control and experimental groups of 10 families. The instruments consisted of a test of an acceptance of parents with transgender and the assimilative family counseling program 12 sessions of 90 minutes each. Data were analyzed with the analysis of variance with repeated measures.
The results were as follows:
1. The factors affecting the acceptance of parents with transgender children including parental features, parental awareness, social influence and family relationship. The coefficient of influence was
0.44, 0.30, 0.22 and 0.18 respectively. The parents' expectation was not found to affect the acceptance of parents with transgender children.
2. The effects of an assimilative family counseling for enhance the acceptance of parents with transgender children revealed that the acceptance of parents in post-test was higher than pre-test and the acceptance in follow up was higher than post-test statistically significant at the .05 level. When compared between groups, it revealed that the acceptance of parents in the experimental group was higher than the control group in post-test and follow up statistically significant at the .05 level.