Substance Abuse and Parenting Among African American Mothers of Adolescents

Johnson, Sharon

doi:10.1007/s10560-015-0383-7

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“…Mamman, Othman and Lian (2014) argued that parents, particularly in poor communities, also contribute to their children's alcohol and drug abuse as most of them are also dependent on or abuse alcohol or illicit drugs as a way of dealing with social pressures. Johnson (2015) also posits that parental substance misuse can cause them to become less responsive and friendly, as well as more authoritarian and punitive toward their adolescent children, resulting in an inability to practise their parenting skills effectively.…”

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Barriers to Effective Parenting of Adolescent Children in Resource-Constrained Communities

Donga

Roman²,

Benjamin³

et al. 2022

SWORK

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The study examined barriers to effective parenting of adolescent children in resource-constrained communities. A qualitative approach was adopted for data collection and analysis. Thematic analysis was applied to data acquired from a sample of parents from resource-constrained areas in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Parents interviewed identified the following barriers: financial constraints, peer influence, alcohol and drug abuse, lack of adequate parental time, communication and maturational changes. Given the parental challenges emerging from the findings of the study, greater understanding of the conditions under which effective parenting of adolescent children in resource-constrained societies can be fostered is essential. Keywords: barriers, parenting, adolescents, resource-constrained, communities

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confidence: 99%

Barriers to Effective Parenting of Adolescent Children in Resource-Constrained Communities

Donga

Roman²,

Benjamin³

et al. 2022

SWORK

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“…Family risk factors, predictive to adolescent substance misuse are: high family conflict and low warmth (Arteaga, Chen, & Reynolds, 2010;Calhoun, Conner, Miller, & Messina, 2015;Skeer et al, 2011;Stickley et al, 2013), parental education, family history of dependence (Khoddam, Worley, Browne, Doran, & Brown, 2015), family's poor reactions, parents' inefficient monitoring, lack of intimacy between parents and children, insufficient support, parents' abuse of drugs (Aghakhani et al, 2015;Basnet, Onyeka, Tiihonen, Föhr, & Kauhanen, 2015;Kelley, Lawrence, Milletich, Hollis, & Henson, 2015), low supervision (Karki, Länsimies, Laukkanen, Pirskanen, & Pietilä, 2016), dysfunctional family organization and communication (Carmona, Barros, Tobar, Canobra, & Montequín, 2008;Nisar, Ullah, Ali, & Alam, 2015), maternal incarceration, absence or violence of father (Carmona et al, 2008), lower family income (Donaldson, Nakawaki, & Crano, 2015), and divorce of parents. (Arditti, 2015;Calhoun et al, 2015;Johnson, 2015). However, a divorce can be a relief for children, on the grounds that it can remove a child from a hostile, dysfunctional, and perhaps, abusive environment (Arditti, 2015).…”

Section: Family and Substance Misusementioning

confidence: 99%

Quality of sibling relationship and substance misuse: A comparative study

Tsamparli¹,

Frrokaj²

2016

Eur. J. Couns. Psych.

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The aim of the current study is to examine the quality of sibling relationship in families with a sibling with substance misuse (SSU) and compare the relationship to families with a sibling with no use (SNU). Thirty-six (36) families participated in the study (17 with SSU and 19 with SNU; N = 144). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 40 siblings (20 SNU and 20 SSU; 18-31 years old) in order to qualitatively investigate the characteristics of the sibling relationship. The siblings were not identified with any psychopathology, according to SCL-90R. Moreover, we considered the family cohesion and adaptability, as identified by the FACES III (administered to the whole sample) and the family constellation (including number of children, birth order, gender, family size, family structure, years of substance misuse and socioeconomic level). The results of the thematic analysis seem to support Furman and Buhrmester’s (1985) framework, in the context of SNU families. Nevertheless, when considering families with SSU the framework is enriched with a new axis: Loss/mourning. The substance misuse seems to provoke an overturn of the representation of the sibling relationship: the behavioral changes (i.e. disengagement) of the sibling with drug use are experienced as a loss by the sibling non user, thus triggering the psychological process of ‘mourning’. Moreover, in these families, the sibling with no drug use seem to experience differential parenting, they feel neglected, angry and they take up a parental role towards the SSU, whom they experience as “sensitive” and “vulnerable”.

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“…Borelli, Goshen, Clark, & Byrne (2009) identified low parenting efficacy and social support among incarcerated women with substance use disorders, and Johnson (2015) found that higher social support and parenting efficacy were linked to better school performance and lower externalizing behaviors in adolescents of mothers with addictions. For mothers with dual disorders, Mowbray and colleagues (2005) examined social support, but not parenting efficacy, and found that family support, specifically living with their extended family members, was related to decreased parenting stress and increased functioning.…”

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Parenting Efficacy and Support in Mothers With Dual Disorders in a Substance Abuse Treatment Program

Brown

Hicks

Tracy

2016

Journal of Dual Diagnosis

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Objective Approximately 73% of women entering treatment for substance use disorders are mothers of children under the age of 18 (SAMHSA, 2009), and the high rate of mental health disorders among mothers with substance use disorders increases their vulnerability to poor parenting practices. Parenting efficacy and social support for parenting have emerged as significant predictors of positive parenting practices among families at risk for child maltreatment. The purpose of the current study was to examine the impact of parenting support and parenting efficacy on the likelihood of out-of-home placement and custody status among the children of mothers with dual substance use and mental health disorders. Methods This study examined the impact of parenting efficacy, and assistance with child-care on the likelihood of child out-of-home placement and custody status among 175 mothers diagnosed with a dual substance and mental health disorder and in treatment for substance dependence. Logistic regression was utilized to assess the contributions of parenting efficacy, and the number of individuals in mothers’ social networks who assist with child-care, to the likelihood of out-of-home placement and custody loss of children. Parenting efficacy was also examined as a mediator using bootstrapping in PROCESS for SPSS. Results Greater parenting efficacy was associated with lower likelihood of having at least one child in out-of-home placement (B = −.064, SE =.029, p = .027), and lower likelihood of loss of child custody (B = −.094, SE =.034, p = .006). Greater number of children in the 6–18 age range predicted greater likelihood of having at least one child in the custody of someone else (B = .409, SE = .171, p = .017) and in out-of-home placement (B = .651, SE = .167, p < .001). Additionally, mothers who identified as African-American were less likely to have a child in out-of-home placement (B = .927, SE = .382, p = .015) or to have lost custody of a child (B = −1.31, SE = .456, p = .004). Finally, parenting efficacy mediated the relationship between parenting support and likelihood of out-of-home placement (Effect = −.0604, SE = .0297, z = 2.035, p = .042), and between parenting support and likelihood of custody loss (Effect = −.0332, SE = .0144, z = −2.298, p = .022). Conclusion Implications for practice include the utilization of personal network interventions, such as increased assistance with child-care, and increased attention to efficacy among mothers with dual disorders.

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Substance Abuse and Parenting Among African American Mothers of Adolescents

Cited by 5 publications

References 42 publications

Barriers to Effective Parenting of Adolescent Children in Resource-Constrained Communities

Barriers to Effective Parenting of Adolescent Children in Resource-Constrained Communities

Quality of sibling relationship and substance misuse: A comparative study

Parenting Efficacy and Support in Mothers With Dual Disorders in a Substance Abuse Treatment Program

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