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Resisting your good intentions: substance-misusing parents and early intervention to support and monitor children in need.
- Source :
- Child & Family Social Work; May2015, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p171-180, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Children from substance-misusing families face elevated risks in growing up well and safe. Early intervention is an opportunity for local authorities to offer support and keep a watching brief on children's welfare. However, the basis upon which agencies voluntarily engage with families in advance of major problems becoming evident is far from straightforward. This qualitative pilot study in Scotland followed professional decision-making over 6 months ( n = 20 professionals) with a small number of families ( n = 6) defined as in need of supportive intervention. This support was allied with an intention to monitor the family situation, which, in these data, appeared to affect the willingness of families to engage with services. As services sought to increase their voluntary oversight, sometimes by threatening escalating involvement, so families by various means appeared to resist it. Successful early intervention is reliant on voluntary family participation and thus requires close attention to means of positive and motivated parental engagement to disarm resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CHILD welfare
CHILDREN of people with mental illness
COMMUNICATION
COMMUNICATIVE competence
COURTS
DECISION making
FAMILY assessment
INTERPROFESSIONAL relations
INTERVIEWING
LONGITUDINAL method
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL personnel
MEDICAL protocols
MEDICAL referrals
MOTIVATION (Psychology)
PARENTING
PARENTS
PATIENT compliance
DYSFUNCTIONAL families
RESEARCH funding
SOCIAL case work
SOCIAL services
SOCIAL workers
SUBSTANCE abuse
SUBSTANCE abuse treatment
QUALITATIVE research
PILOT projects
PROFESSIONAL practice
FAMILY relations
SOCIAL support
TREATMENT programs
DRUG abusers
PATIENT dropouts
EARLY medical intervention
PATIENTS' families
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13567500
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Child & Family Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 102012623
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12064