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Do you have a teen
or pre-teen loved one that suffers from drug and/or alcohol abuse?
"Underage drinking presents an enormous public health issue. Alcohol
is the drug of choice among children and adolescents. Annually, about 5,000
youth under age 21 die from motor vehicle crashes, other unintentional injuries,
and homicides and suicides that involve underage drinking."
"In 2006, 1.4 million youth ages 12 to 17 needed treatment for an alcohol
problem. Of this group, only 101,000 of them received any treatment at a
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THE ROLE OF FAMILY IN ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE
ABUSE
Research
indicates that the family is the most important aspect of predicting
adolescent substance abuse. It is even greater than peer influence.
In fact the role of family, positive family influence, and the
structure of family helps to prevent poor peer choices in addition
to poor choices or risky behaviors of substance abuse. We at
Inspirations Teen Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Center have
compiled a series of research studies related to the Role of
Family in Adolescent Substance Abuse. Most parents recognize
when their child need help. If you have a teen struggling with
substance abuse please seek help. Prevent a tragic outcome.
Don't let your child become a statistic.
Research supporting subject found below:
Family-Based
Treatment for Adolescent Substance Abuse: Controlled Trials
and New Horizons in Services Research:
" This article provides an overview of controlled trials
research on treatment processes and outcomes in family-based
approaches for adolescent substance abuse. Outcome
research on engagement and retention in therapy, clinical impacts
in multiple domains of adolescent and family functioning, and
durability and moderators of treatment effects is reviewed.
Treatment process research on therapeutic alliance, treatment
fidelity and core family therapy techniques, and change in family
processes is described. Several important research issues are
presented for the next generation of family-based treatment
studies focusing on delivery of evidence-based treatments in
routine practice settings."
Research above is courtesy of The Association
for Family Therapy
Urban
adolescents’ reflections on brief substance use treatment,
social networks, and self-narratives
" Social network reflection
The qualitative interviews reiterated the importance
of relationships in the patients’ lives, citing the use
of their social network as a positive emotional support.
For example, patients sought out friends for advice in times
of need. One youth asserted, ‘‘My friends will always
be there to . . . either talk about school, or girls, or I guess
even drinking . . .’’ Another added that his friends,
‘‘Help me with other relationships.’’
Additionally, patient networks acted as positive influences
related to cessation of drug use. Patients engaged
in activities with peers that allowed them to manage stress
and eschew drug use, including playing sports,
playing musical instruments, or attending to homework. A positive,
encouraging social network allowed patients to feel supported
and reduced feelings of alienation and isolation; as one patient
explained, he sought out his friends so that, ‘‘there
is always someone there so [I’m] not, like, alone . .
.’’ "
Research above is courtesy of informahealthcare.com
Substance
use and risk-taking among adolescents
"The close relationships of adolescent substance
abuse with family functioning suggest that family,
rather than individual evaluation, should be the norm when seeing
youth in trouble with substances. Broader evaluation
of functioning across school, peer, social, and environmental
domains is also warranted."
Research above is courtesy of informahealthcare.com
The role of the family in preventing and intervening with substance
use and misuse: a comprehensive review of family interventions,
with a focus on young people
"A review of parent training suggested that the use of
child-management practices which are consistent and contingent
(i.e. rewards and punishments given for specific behaviours),
can increase family attachment and cohesion, and decrease disruptive
and delinquent behaviours among children [58]. It has been suggested
that parents who lack effective family management skills are
less well-equipped to protect their children from negative peer
influence [59], and that development of social skills in children
may be an effective strategy for preventing drug misuse. Poor
parenting skills tend to be passed from one generation to the
next [60], and parents can feel overwhelmed.
Indeed, both excessively authoritarian and permissive
parenting have been found to be associated with an earlier onset
of drug and alcohol use [61]."
Research above is courtesy of Taylor and Francis
Health Sciences
Risk
Factors for Serious Alcohol and Drug Use: The Role of Psychosocial
Variables in Predicting the Frequency of Substance Use Among
Adolescents
"Studies of the family environment have repeatedly shown
that family structural characteristics and communication patterns
are related to alcohol and drug use. Vakalahi (11) provided
a review of theories and findings on adolescent substance abuse
and family-based risk and protective factors. One of the most
significant family factors is the quality of relationships amont
family member (12,13)."
Research above is courtesy of The American Journal
of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Protective Families in High-and Low-risk Environments: Implications
for Adolescent Substance Use
"There is evidence that family, school, and other social
contexts do not operate in isolation but rather that there is
some interplay among them that influences adolescent risk behaviors
(Kumar et al. 2002; Swaim 2003). The common belief is that such
cross-level interactions operate in what Luthar et al. (2000,
p. 547) describe as a protective enhancing effect whereby the
influence of protective factors on ‘‘competence
is augmented with increasing risk’’. In this case,
living in a well-functioning family offers strong protection
against negative outcomes for adolescents residing in contexts
characterized by high risk (e.g., Beyers et al. 2001;
Plybon and Kliewer 2001). In other words, family factors, such
as nurturant parenting, provision of warmth, and consistent
disciplinary practices, can act as protective buffers against
the negative impact of a high-risk context."
Research above is courtesy of J Youth Adolescence
Parenting, Peer Orientation, Drug Use, and Antisocial Behavior
in Late Adolescence: A Cross-National Study
"It is recognized that the increasing importance of peers
constitutes a major change in the life of adolescents (Collins,
1997; Laursen and Williams, 1997). This conveys a dramatic diminution
of time spent with the family to time spent outside with peers
(Csikszentmihalyi and Larson, 1984; Larson and Richards, 1991).
One can observe in parallel an increasing sensitivity to the
influence of peers and a tendency to turn toward friends instead
of parents for support and advice (Berndt, 1979). Multiple studies
indicate that affiliation to deviant peers represent the strongest
predictor of deviant behavior.Affiliation
to adolescents who are engaged in deviant behavior represents
the most important risk factor of deviant behavior, whether
it be theft, vandalism, violent behavior, alcohol use, or drug
use (Aseltine, 1995; Elliott et al., 1985; Patterson and Dishion,
1985; Patterson et al., 2000; Thornberry and Krohn, 1997). Fuligni
and Eccles (1993) introduced the concept of peer orientation
to account for adolescentswho reliedmore on peers than on their
parents for advice and support."
Research above is courtesy of The Journal of
Youth and Adolescence
Parental
and Peer Influences on the Risk of Adolescent Drug Use
"One of the ongoing issues in the study of adolescent drug
use is the strength of peer and family influences. Drug prevention
programs have tended to focus on school programs that target
peers (Gorman, 1997). However, there is increasing evidence
that peer influences have been overestimated (Bauman & Ennett,
1996; Gorman, 1998; Kandel, 1996). One of the purposes of this
research was to address this question by including a more complete
set of family characteristics than has been included in previous
research (parental attitudes toward drug use, sibling use, adult
use, attachment to mother, attachment to father, and parental
monitoring)."
Research above is courtesy of The Journal of
Primary Prevention
The
moderating effects of peer substance use on the family structure–adolescent
substance use association: Quantity versus quality of parenting
"In addition to the direct associations that peer and parenting
factors have with adolescent
substance use, recent research has explored whether there exist
mediating or moderating
effects between the two sets of factors. Indeed, some evidence
exists that controlling for peer use does mediate the association
between adolescent peer use and related family process variables,
such as parental attachment, discipline, and supervision (Aseltine,
1995; Miller,1997). Some have interpreted this mediation effect
as evidence that peer influences are part of an intervening
chain of relations that stem from differences in family processes
(e.g., supervision, discipline, parental attachment), which
ultimately increase the risk of adolescent substance use (Brook,
Brook, Scovell, Whiteman & Cohen, 1990; Hoffman, 1994; Kandel,1996)."
Research above is courtesy of ScienceDirect.com
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