TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk and Resilience
T2 - The Family Experience of Adolescents with an Addicted Parent
AU - Ronel, Natti
AU - Haimoff-Ayali, Ronit
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - The family relationships of adolescents brought up by an addicted parent were studied in a qualitative research. The authors interviewed 19 adolescents, all of whom had a parent either actively addicted to drugs or else recovering addicts. The participants were assigned to one of two groups based on the degree to which they maintained normative lives or descended into addiction. It was found that the relative strength of the adolescents within the triad of forces (mother, father, self) had great significance for their development. Younger siblings awakened a desire to protect them from a life of addiction. The extended family was also found to have a potential to influence, in keeping with the significance the young people attributed to these relatives. The results indicate a definition, the first of its kind, of subjective risk and protective factors representing subjective perceptions of the reality of the lives of the participants.
AB - The family relationships of adolescents brought up by an addicted parent were studied in a qualitative research. The authors interviewed 19 adolescents, all of whom had a parent either actively addicted to drugs or else recovering addicts. The participants were assigned to one of two groups based on the degree to which they maintained normative lives or descended into addiction. It was found that the relative strength of the adolescents within the triad of forces (mother, father, self) had great significance for their development. Younger siblings awakened a desire to protect them from a life of addiction. The extended family was also found to have a potential to influence, in keeping with the significance the young people attributed to these relatives. The results indicate a definition, the first of its kind, of subjective risk and protective factors representing subjective perceptions of the reality of the lives of the participants.
KW - Addicted parent
KW - Adolescents
KW - Phenomenology
KW - Protective factors
KW - Resilience
KW - Risk factors
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77952250282&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0306624X09332314
DO - 10.1177/0306624X09332314
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C2 - 19270268
AN - SCOPUS:77952250282
SN - 0306-624X
VL - 54
SP - 448
EP - 472
JO - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
JF - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
IS - 3
ER -