INCARCERATED ADDICT MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN

本研究旨在评估干预措施对240名10至14岁的儿童及其在儿童一生中对麻醉品上瘾的被监禁的非裔美国母亲的单独和综合影响。 这项工作将为儿童提供新开发的心理教育应对技能干预，并为吸毒囚犯的母亲和在母亲监禁期间负责照顾儿童的看护人提供标准化的育儿技能方案。 这种预防干预方法旨在影响三个主要领域：1）儿童的亲社会发展，包括避免滥用药物，发展积极的生活选择，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感的能力; 2）母亲的养育能力，从而最终使母子关系或纽带的功能令人满意; 3）目前的照顾者的养育技能，因为他们帮助孩子在他们目前的调整和功能。 自我报告，行为和心理测量评估将提供有关儿童，他们的成瘾母亲和他们的照顾者在干预前和干预后以及参加该计划后12个月的结果数据。

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.