Long-term coping in families of released prisoners: a study of individual and family resilience

拟议的研究将调查经历父亲监禁的家庭的复原过程。根据最近一项纵向研究的独特数据集，该研究收集了囚犯、他们的（前）伴侣和子女在监禁期间和监禁后的信息，本研究将检查父亲出狱后大约6年的个人和家庭应对过程和社会（再）融合经历。与大多数现有研究相反，这项研究将不仅关注有问题的适应的风险因素，而且特别强调家庭关系和支持网络在面对多重福祉风险（例如犯罪行为、健康问题、酗酒和滥用药物、学校或就业问题以及社会解体）时的保护功能。这些数据将部分用于测试和进一步开发面向家庭的复原力过程模型，该模型可以为社会政策和实践的发展提供信息。

The proposed research will investigate processes of resilience in families who have experienced the imprisonment of the father. Building on a unique data set from a recent longitudinal study which gathered information from prisoners, their (ex)partners and children during and after imprisonment, this study will examine individual and family-wide coping processes and experiences of social (re)integration approximately six years after the father's release from prison. In contrast to most existing research, the study will not focus only on risk factors for problematic adaptation but put particular emphasis on protective functions of family relationships and support networks in the face of multiple risks to well-being (e.g. criminal behaviour, health problems, alcohol and drug misuse, school or employment problems, and social disintegration). The data will be used in part to test and further develop a family-oriented process model of resilience that can inform social policy and the development of practice.