In the master’s thesis, I researched the emergence of learned helplessness and family resilience. People can encounter various obstacles in every step we make and experience failures again and again. Learned helplessness can develop in people with pessimistic explanatory style in the case of continuing failure and failed efforts. I wished to research learned helplessness from the perspective of parents of children with learning difficulties. Parents play an important role in a child’s life. Therefore, it is necessary to include them in school and professional work and make them aware of the emergence of learned helplessness. I dedicated a part of the master’s thesis to family resilience where I researched what strategies families use facing different challenges brought by life. In the first part of the master’s thesis, I write about the history of the emergence of learned helplessness, its definition, and the criticisms and limitations of the emergence of learned helplessness. I also mention the explanatory style and the attribution theory and I wrap up with the techniques which are useful in preventing learned helplessness. I finish the first part with the presentation of family resilience. I dedicate the second part of the master’s thesis to the methodology and research. At the end of the chapter, I present the acquired results, conclusions, and proposals. In the research, I was curious whether the parents of children with learning difficulties know the term of learned helplessness, whether they sensed the phenomenon in them and their children, and how they faced learned helplessness. I was also interested in what help they need in the case of learned helplessness and in what ways they cope with different challenges brought by life as a family. The results showed that the parents of children with learning difficulties were not familiar with the conception of learned helplessness before it was defined to them. However, they encountered the phenomenon in them and in their children.
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