“..that warm feeling that [alcohol] gave me was what I interpreted love would feel like..” Lived experience of excessive alcohol use and care proceedings by mothers in the family justice system in the UK

Boreham, Maggie; Marlow, Sally; Gilchrist, Gail

doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.12.032

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“…Scott-Storey and collaborators [16] have already proposed that asymmetries in victimizing intimate violence by sex may result from differences in the perception of violence by sex in a context of social inequities, and normalized violation of human rights as occurs in Mexico [51]. Both men and women suffer intimate violence.…”

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Interpersonal and Intimate Violence in Mexican Youth: Drug Use, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Chainé,

Bacigalupe,

García

et al. 2023

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The COVID-19 pandemic may have increased interpersonal and intimate violence, harmful use of alcohol and other drugs (AODs), and mental health problems. This study uses a valid path model to describe relationships between these conditions of young Mexicans during the second year of the pandemic. A sample of 7420 Mexicans ages 18 to 24—two-thirds of whom are women—completed the Life Events Checklist, the Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test, the Major Depressive Episode Checklist, the Generalized Anxiety Scale, and the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist. Young Mexicans reported higher rates of victimization and perpetration of interpersonal and intimate violence and mental health symptomatology than those noted pre- and in the first year of the pandemic. The harmful use of AOD rates were similar to those reported by adolescents before. The findings suggest asymmetric victimization and perpetration of intimate violence by gender (with women at a higher risk). More men than women have engaged in the harmful use of AODs (except for sedatives, which more women abuse). More women than men were at risk of all mental health conditions. The path model indicates that being a victim of intimate violence predicts the harmful use of tobacco, alcohol, cocaine, and sedatives, depression, anxiety, and specific PTSD symptoms (such as re-experimentation and avoidance symptoms). Being a victim of interpersonal violence resulted in severe PTSD symptoms (including avoidance, negative alterations in cognition-mood, and hyperarousal signs). The harmful use of sedatives predicted depressive symptoms. Men’s victimizing intimate violence model contrasted with that of women, which included being the victim of interpersonal violence and severe PTSD symptoms. The high school youth model had three paths: victimizing intimate violence, victimizing interpersonal abuse, and sedative use, which predicted depression. Our findings could serve as the basis for future studies exploring the mechanisms that predict violence to develop cost-effective preventive programs and public policies and to address mental health conditions during community emergencies.

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“…Although men disclose the forms of violence suffered, they seem to view emotional and sexual abuse as more dangerous than physical violence. Women can endure several forms of violence for long periods of time, suffering greater consequences [51]. Men and women, however, seem to cope with victimizing intimate violence through AOD use [52].…”

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confidence: 99%

Interpersonal and Intimate Violence in Mexican Youth: Drug Use, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Chainé,

Bacigalupe,

García

et al. 2023

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“…Some drug strategy approaches [1] contravene international research findings, including tougher sentences for recreational users [11]. Punitive approaches can deter people from treatment; for example, state child removal fear is a barrier to women seeking help for alcohol use [12], and child removal can trigger increased substance usage [13,14]. Structural issues can exacerbate substance usage [15,16], and Link and Phelan [17] identify a power requirement to stigmatise others, for example, social, economic, and political power.…”

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Women, Addictions, Mental Health, Dishonesty, and Crime Stigma: Solutions to Reduce the Social Harms of Stigma

Page,

Fedorowicz,

McCormack

et al. 2024

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British drug policies could underserve women with treatment needs, and this paper provides evidence that communication through the words and actions of professionals across drug and alcohol services, health and mental health, social work and the criminal justice sector can leave women feeling stigmatised and failed. Women live with the stigma of ‘the lying addict’; however, documents and courtroom statements provided by professionals can misrepresent women’s experiences, which exacerbates social harm. Data are drawn from feminist participatory action research, where female lived experience experts worked alongside academics to implement a qualitative study using interviews and focus groups with women using treatment services (n = 28) and an online world café with professionals working with these women (n = 9) and further professionals providing support at lived experience data collection events (n = 5). This data set is cross-referenced with one-to-one and small-group interviews with professionals in the field (n = 17) conducted by a third-sector partner. Findings establish that stigma negatively impacts the identification of treatment needs and access to timely and appropriate service delivery. Social harms to women with addictions could be significantly reduced with timely, authentic, honest, gender-informed and trauma-informed practices for girls and women using drugs and alcohol to self-medicate from traumatic experiences.

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“…The original mixed-methods study, the Bridging the Evidence Gap in Family Proceedings study (Marlow et al, 2017) had planned to conduct a prospective cohort study of between 80 and120 mothers who misuse alcohol and whose children appear in care proceedings across England to understand what factors other than alcohol misuse might be present in these mothers, and to what extent those factors might contribute to the mothers' ability to abstain from alcohol and remain abstinent in the 12 months after the initiation of care proceedings. While the researchers were successful in recruiting via social workers a small number of women to participate in interviews (Boreham et al, 2019), the target sample size for the prospective cohort study was not met. The study refocused instead on what social workers and social work managers perceive to be the barriers to engaging this population of mothers in research.…”

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How to capture the experience of mothers with alcohol problems involved in English family court proceedings – lessons from the field

Radcliffe

Canfield

Boreham

et al. 2020

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Purpose It proved difficult to recruit sufficient mothers to a prospective cohort study designed to explore the factors and characteristics of mothers whose children are the subject of the public care system as a result of their drinking, retaining or losing care of their children. In conducting interviews instead with social workers in six local authorities, the repurposed study aimed to explore their views of the barriers and facilitators to involving this “hard to reach” population of mothers in research at the beginning of care proceedings. Design/methodology/approach For this study, 36 semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with child and family social workers and social work managers located in six English local authorities. Transcripts were analysed using Nvivo and coded thematically. Findings Workforce issues and social work workload, court timescales and the additional burden that participating in research at a time of enormous stress for mothers were described as barriers to recruitment. Social workers suggested that the criteria for including participants could be widened to include mothers in pre-proceedings and that recruitment could take place via substance use services with whom mothers do not have an antagonistic relationship. Research limitations/implications The perspective of social work practitioners and not mothers themselves on barriers to engagement in research is a limitation of the study. Innovative and flexible research design is needed to include the participation of mothers whose alcohol use has led to court proceedings in research. Originality/value Few studies have investigated the barriers and facilitators to engaging mothers in research at the point that care proceedings have been issued. The re-purposed study highlighted the particular stresses on mothers and social workers and made recommendations for alternative strategies for recruiting these mothers and representing their experience in research.

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“..that warm feeling that [alcohol] gave me was what I interpreted love would feel like..” Lived experience of excessive alcohol use and care proceedings by mothers in the family justice system in the UK

Cited by 7 publications

References 25 publications

Interpersonal and Intimate Violence in Mexican Youth: Drug Use, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Interpersonal and Intimate Violence in Mexican Youth: Drug Use, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Women, Addictions, Mental Health, Dishonesty, and Crime Stigma: Solutions to Reduce the Social Harms of Stigma

How to capture the experience of mothers with alcohol problems involved in English family court proceedings – lessons from the field

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