Drug addiction and families /

Main Author: Barnard, Marina, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is the problem?
  • Family journeys of discovery, adaptation and expulsion : cycles of response to drugs in the family
  • Distorted roles and strained relationships
  • Practitioner responses to mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters of problem drug users
  • Parenting in the midst of a drug problem
  • Children growing up with parents who have drug problems
  • Stepping into the breach : when the extended family takes on the care of children
  • Proliferating problems : exposure to drugs and drug initiation
  • Practitioner responses to drugs in the home
  • Conclusion : what needs to happen? : a case of tinkering or overhaul?