Abstract
A qualitative phenomenological study of high-risk adolescents, who are children of substance-dependent parents, explored the presence of subjective risk and protective factors. Nineteen adolescents were interviewed, all of whom had a father or both parents either actively dependent on psychoactive substances or recovering from substance dependence. The participants were assigned to one of two groups, based on the degree to which they maintained normative lives or had misused substances themselves. It was found that certain perceptions of the participants, concerning themselves and their parents, served as either subjective risk or protective factors, respectively. Implications for the treatment of this population are outlined.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 608-619 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Substance Use and Misuse |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| State | Published - 15 Mar 2011 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This study is part of a larger research project that was supported by the Israel Anti-Drug Auity and the Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Policy and Treatment of Children and Youth, Tel Aviv University. Both organizations approved the ethics of the study. Before interviewing the adolescents, we first received the informed consent of the responsible adult (parent or the director of the youth shelter/therapeutic community) and then of the participants. We informed them that they could unconditionally withdraw from the interview at any stage. Any information or description that might jeopardize the anonymity of the participants was carefully removed from the paper. The names provided here are pseudonyms.
Keywords
- adolescence
- phenomenology
- protective factors
- risk factors
- substance-dependent parents
