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Drug Use With Parents as a Relational Strategy for Incarcerated Female Adolescents

Drug Use With Parents as a Relational Strategy for Incarcerated Female Adolescents Problems associated with poor quality parent‐child relationships are compounded for incarcerated girls. Using attachment theory as a framework, the present qualitative study examined how 18 incarcerated adolescent girls made meaning with regard to their parents’ drug use. We found that 8 of the 18 girls used drugs with their parents as a relational strategy to be close with them, particularly with their fathers, or as a means to share time together. The unique finding that girls used drugs together with their parents supports the need for relational parenting interventions that, whenever possible, support, encourage, and provide treatment and family strengthening services to parents who use drugs and their children. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Family Relations Wiley

Drug Use With Parents as a Relational Strategy for Incarcerated Female Adolescents

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2009 by the National Council on Family Relations
ISSN
0197-6664
eISSN
1741-3729
DOI
10.1111/j.1741-3729.2008.00542.x
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Abstract

Problems associated with poor quality parent‐child relationships are compounded for incarcerated girls. Using attachment theory as a framework, the present qualitative study examined how 18 incarcerated adolescent girls made meaning with regard to their parents’ drug use. We found that 8 of the 18 girls used drugs with their parents as a relational strategy to be close with them, particularly with their fathers, or as a means to share time together. The unique finding that girls used drugs together with their parents supports the need for relational parenting interventions that, whenever possible, support, encourage, and provide treatment and family strengthening services to parents who use drugs and their children.

Journal

Family RelationsWiley

Published: Apr 1, 2009

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