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Growing up with parental substance use disorder: T he struggle with complex emotions, regulation of contact, and lack of professional support
Author(s) -
Wangensteen Turid,
Bramness Jørgen Gustav,
Halsa Astrid
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
child and family social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-2206
pISSN - 1356-7500
DOI - 10.1111/cfs.12603
Subject(s) - sociocultural evolution , psychology , interpretative phenomenological analysis , perception , developmental psychology , qualitative research , everyday life , substance use , social psychology , clinical psychology , sociology , social science , neuroscience , anthropology , political science , law
The aim of the study was to explore young people's perceptions and reflections about growing up with parents who have substance use disorder (SUD). In qualitative interviews with 12 young people (aged 13–26) and in an interpretative phenomenological analysis, we investigated their experiences of everyday life, of the relationships with the parents with SUD, and of conversations about this, both retrospectively and at the present. The findings indicated that the relationships with the parents largely occupied the informants, even when they lived separately from the parent and were protected from the daily exposure of substance use. The informants described their mixed and contradictory emotions towards their parents and the struggle to determine regulation and type of contact. They asked for professional support in order to help them cope with this. Sociocultural discourses concerning family life and substance use were discussed in an attempt to understand the findings. The findings of the study suggest that children and young people should be offered sufficient professional support in order to cope with their mixed and contradictory emotions and to determine the regularity and type of contact with the parents.

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