INCARCERATED ADDICT MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN

本研究旨在评估对240名10- 14岁的儿童及其被监禁的非裔美国母亲的单独干预和综合干预的影响，这些儿童在其一生中都对麻醉品上瘾。这项工作将为孩子们提供一种新开发的心理教育应对技能干预，并为吸毒的囚犯母亲和在母亲监禁期间负责照顾孩子的看护人提供一项标准化的育儿技能计划。这种预防干预方法旨在影响三个主要方面：1)儿童的亲社会发展，包括避免药物滥用，发展积极的生活选择，以及儿童处理其母亲成瘾生涯的创伤方面的能力，以及由于监禁而失去母亲的存在；2)母亲的养育能力，从而最终使母子关系或纽带发挥令人满意的作用；3)当前的看护人在帮助孩子进行当前的调整和运作时的养育技能。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参与该计划12个月后儿童、其成瘾母亲和其看护人的结果数据。

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.