INCARCERATED ADDICT MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN

被监禁的吸毒成瘾母亲及其孩子

• 批准号: 2852266
• 负责人: THOMAS E HANLON
• 金额: $ 31.04万
• 依托单位: FRIENDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-10 至 2002-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2852266
• 关键词: African American; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; caregivers; clinical research; coping; correctional institutions; drug addiction; extended care facility; family structure /dynamics; human subject; human therapy evaluation; mother child interaction; psychological adaptation; psychotherapy; social psychology

This study proposes to evaluate the separate and combined impact of interventions provided to 240 10-to 14-year old children and their incarcerated African-American mothers who have been addicted to narcotics during the child's lifetime. The effort will provide a newly developed psychoeducational coping skill intervention for the children, and a standardized parenting skills program for both the addict inmate mothers and for the caretakers who are responsible for the children during the mother's incarceration. This prevention intervention approach is designed to impact three major areas: 1) The child's pro-social development, including the avoidance of substance abuse, the development of positive life options, and the child's ability to deal with the traumatic aspects of his/her mother's addiction career and the loss of her presence due to incarceration; 2) The parenting ability of the mother and thus, ultimately, the satisfactory functioning of the mother-child relationship or bond; and 3) The parenting skills of the current caretakers as they aid the children in their current adjustment and functioning. Self-report, behavioral, and psychometric assessments will provide outcome data on the children, their addict mothers, and their caretakers at pre- and post- intervention, and 12 months following enrollment in the program.

这项研究建议评估向240名10至14岁儿童及其被监禁的非裔美国母亲提供的干预措施的单独和综合影响，这些母亲在儿童一生中对毒品上瘾。这一努力将为儿童提供新开发的心理教育应对技能干预，并为吸毒成瘾的囚犯母亲和在母亲被监禁期间负责儿童的照顾者提供标准化的育儿技能计划。这一预防干预办法旨在影响三个主要领域：1)儿童的亲社会发展，包括避免药物滥用，制定积极的生活选择，以及儿童处理其母亲吸毒生涯的创伤方面和因监禁而失去存在的能力；2)母亲的养育能力，从而最终改善母子关系或纽带的令人满意的运作；以及3)目前的照顾者在帮助儿童目前的调整和功能时的育儿技能。自我报告、行为和心理测量评估将提供干预前和干预后以及加入该计划后12个月的儿童、他们的成瘾母亲和他们的照顾者的结果数据。