The proposed research aims to explore and describe the experiences, challenges and coping strategies of fathers, parenting children, abusing illegal substances. The use and abuse of illegal substances became national and global dilemmas. The impact and damage caused when drugs are widely used over time is irreversible, as it influences the lives of users and those of their families, their communities, and the country. This research provides an opportunity for fathers, parenting children, abusing illegal substances to share their experiences and challenges. Data are collected by conducting in-depth and face-toface interviews with the participants. The collected data are analysed by following the eight steps of Tesch in Creswell (2009:186). Data are analysed using Lincoln and Guba’s model of trustworthiness of qualitative research for validation. The study endeavours to obtain an understanding of the experiences and challenges encountered by fathers, parenting children, abusing illegal substances and how social workers could assist in addressing this dilemma. / Social Work / M.A. (Social Work)

L’été au Parc Belmont est un recueil de fragments qui allie prose narrative, photographies d’archives familiales, écriture manuscrite et dessins. Le récit relate l’enquête d’une narratrice sur l’identité de son père et la difficile mise au tombeau de celui-ci. Dans ce projet d’exhumation du passé paternel, la parole phagocytante de la narratrice rassemble toutes les informations qu’elle peut trouver et demeure l’unique énonciatrice du récit. C’est dans une temporalité ressassante, mélancolique et non linéaire que se déroule l’intrigue; entre l’enfance du père le long de la rivière des Prairies, son adolescence à Cartierville et sa vie adulte dans une ville de banlieue, le présent de l’enquête vient faire irruption. Le recours à des archives familiales sous forme de photographies et de vidéos pour l’élaboration de ce recueil problématise le rapport entre le texte et l’image. Ainsi, les photographies sont utilisées de diverses manières : photos qui apparaissent dans le texte sans qu’on les convoque directement, photos dont est donnée une ekphrasis elliptique ou falsifiée, photos accompagnées de légendes détournées, etc. Cartographies du père propose une réflexion sur les liens qu’entretiennent le topographique et le biographique dans les textes littéraires contemporains. Dans le cadre de cet essai, je m’intéresse à un corpus doublement mixte : québécois et américain, mais également narratif et graphique. L’étude porte plus exactement sur trois autrices et auteurs, soit Alison Bechdel (Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic, 2006), Hervé Bouchard (Harvey ou Comment je suis devenu invisible, 2009) et Catherine Mavrikakis (La ballade d’Ali Baba, 2014). Au-delà des rapports entre transmission et lieu, les textes de mon corpus sont liés par la mort du père, perte indépassable, événement toujours à investiguer pour les narratrices et narrateurs. Il s’agit non seulement d’analyser la manière dont ces textes thématisent l’absence paternelle ainsi que les difficultés et les apories de la transmission qui en découlent, mais aussi de quelles façons ils représentent le lieu, jouent avec l’espace de la page, mobilisent les outils de la cartographie et décrivent les trajets. Pour ces héritières et héritiers, la reconstruction d’un événement ou d’un passé familial passe nécessairement par une reconstitution du lieu, qu’il soit la campagne de la Pennsylvanie, la maison familiale des Bouillon ou le chemin entre Montréal et Key West. L’analyse de cette reconstitution du lieu informe le lecteur du rapport que l’héritier entretient avec la figure paternelle. Cartographies du père offre également une réflexion sur l’acte de raconter l’autre et sur les recours fictionnels inévitables que cette entreprise oblige. / L’été au Parc Belmont is a collection of fragments that combines narrative prose, family archive photographs, handwriting and drawings. In this story, the narrator is investigating her father’s identity. The narrator gathers all the information she can find and remains the sole enunciator of the story in her attempt to exhume the paternal past. The plot unfolds in an overwhelming, melancholy and non-linear temporality; between the father’s childhood along the Rivière des Prairies, his adolescence in Cartierville and his adulthood in a suburban town, the narrator’s investigation periodically bursts in. The use of family archives in the form of photographs and videos problematizes the relationship between text and image. Thus, photographs are used in various ways : photos which appear in the text without being directly referred to, photos which are given an elliptical or falsified ekphrasis, photos accompanied by diverted legends, etc. Cartographies du père offers a reflection on the links between topography and biography in contemporary literary texts. In this essay, I am studying a corpus that is both Québécois and American, as well as narrative and graphic. The study focuses on three authors : Alison Bechdel (Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic, 2006), Hervé Bouchard (Harvey ou Comment je suis devenu invisible, 2009) and Catherine Mavrikakis (La ballade d’Ali Baba, 2014). Beyond the relationships between transmission and locales, the texts of my corpus are linked by the father’s death, an unsurpassable loss, an event that is yet to be investigated by the narrators. While this essay focuses on the way in which these texts thematize paternal absence –namely through the difficulties and shortcomings of the transmission resulting from this loss – it is also questioning the ways in which the authors represent various locales, play with the space of the page, mobilize mapping tools and describe routes. For these heirs, the reconstruction of a family event or history necessarily involves a reconstruction of the setting, whether it be the Pennsylvania countryside, the Bouillon family home or the road between Montreal and Key West. The analysis of the reconstruction of the locale informs the reader of the relationship that the heir maintains with the father figure. Cartographies du père also offers a reflection on the act of remembering and talking about another person and on the inevitable fictional shifts that this action provoke.

Vaterschaft mit Behinderung ist ein wenig untersuchtes Phänomen, obwohl Väter mit einer Behinderung vor ähnlichen Aufgaben und Problemen wie Väter ohne Behinderung stehen. Der persönliche Blick auf die eigene Behinderung ist bestimmend für die Haltung und das Handeln als Vater. Väter mit positivem Selbstkonzept vermuten kaum Probleme oder negative Auswirkungen der Behinderung auf das Kind. Als schwerwiegende Barrieren im Alltag erweisen sich einschränkende Rahmenbedingungen und fehlende Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten; [J1] nur ein geringer Teil von Problemen hängt ursächlich mit der Behinderung zusammen.

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L’attachement parent-enfant et le tempérament sont deux concepts fondamentaux dans le développement de l’enfant, car ils sont impliqués dans le développement de ses capacités de socialisation et de régulation émotionnelle. Cependant, le lien entre l’attachement et le tempérament est encore mal compris. La présente recherche évalue s’il y a un lien entre les catégorie d’attachement (A, B, C, D) ainsi que les sous-catégories d’attachement mère-enfant (A, B1, B2, B3, B4, C et D) et père-enfant (A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, B4, C1 et D) et le tempérament (affect négatif, extraversion et autocontrôle) chez les trottineurs (12-30 mois). Les données proviennent du premier temps de mesure du projet de recherche Complémentarité des relations d’attachement père-enfant et mère-enfant : une approche systémique de la famille pour mieux comprendre le développement des enfants d’âge préscolaire (CRA). L’échantillon comprend des familles composées de la mère (n=174), du père (n=173) et de leur enfant. L’attachement mère-enfant et père-enfant a été mesuré à un mois d’intervalle à l’aide de la Situation étrangère de Ainsworth à 12-18 mois. Le tempérament a été mesuré par le questionnaire de Rothbart «Early Child Beavior Questionnaire - Short Form» rempli par la mère et le père à 24-30 mois. Aucun des tests de différence de moyenne ne sont significatifs. Cela indique que les enfants des différentes catégories et sous-catégories d’attachement mère-enfant et père-enfant ne diffèrent pas quant à leur niveau d’affect négatif, l’extraversion et d’autocontrôle. / Parent-child attachment and temperament are two fundamental concepts in child development, because they are involved in the development of both socialization and emotional regulation capacity. However, the connection between those two concepts is still misunderstood. The foregoing research assesses whether there is a connection between mother-child and fatherchild attachment (A, B, C, D), mother-child sub-categories (A, B1, B2, B3, B4, C and D) and father-child sub-categories (A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, B4, C and D) with the temperament (negative affect, surgency and effortful control) of 12-18 month-old toddlers. Data come from the first measurement time in the Complémentarité des relations d’attachement père-enfant et mèreenfant : une approche systémique de la famille pour mieux comprendre le développement des enfants d’âge préscolaire (CRA) research project. The sample is made of families with the mother (n=174) the father (n=173) and their child. The attachment was measured with the Ainsworth Strange Situation at 12-18 month and the temperament was measured by the mothers’ and the fathers’ answers to the Rothbart questionnaire « Early Child Behavior Questionnaire - Short Form » when the child was 24-30 month old. The two MANCOVAS models are not significant. Results indicate that there is no difference between children of either attachment category and sub-category as to toddlers’ negative affect, surgency and effortful control.

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This study evaluates the efficacy of a self-guided, low-intensity curriculum, Marriage Moments, based on Fowers' (2000) virtues model of marital quality that emphasizes friendship, generosity, justice and loyalty. The Marriage Moments program consists of a guidebook and a video that were designed to strengthen marriages during the transition to parenthood and is used in the context of a home visitation program for first-time parents. Participants in the study included 119 married couples who had recently given birth to their first child. They were assigned to either a treatment, comparison or control group. The treatment group received the Marriage Moments curriculum as well as the Welcome Baby home visitation curriculum, the comparison group only received the Welcome Baby curriculum and the control group received neither program. Data were gathered through a battery of self- and spouse-report measures given at 3-months, 4-months, and 9-months postpartum. Relationship outcome measures included in this study were the Marital Virtues Profile, Revised-Dyadic Adjustment Scale, RELATE Satisfaction subscale, Transition Adjustment Scale, Father Involvement Scale, Household Labor Scale, and Maternal Depression Scale. Despite positive evaluations of the program from participants, analyses revealed a lack of significant, positive effects for members of the treatment group. Further research is needed before reliable conclusions can be drawn about the value of a marital virtues model as a guide for low intensity intervention.

Family life is organized by rules, and most of them are unspokenly agreed-upon by family members and may be even out of awareness. Implicit family process and couple rules may facilitate or constrain family relationship and intimate couple relationship growth. Prevalence of family rules may be different across cultures. Family members may perceive their rules and family functioning differently according to their family position and gender. Married couples may view their relationship rules differently than couples who cohabit. This study utilized the Family Implicit Rules Profile (FIRP) and the Couples Implicit Rules Profile (CIRP) Questionnaires to answer these research questions. The questionnaires were translated into Hungarian, and the content validity of the Hungarian translation was established. Hungarian non-clinical families and couples were compared to American (U.S.) non-clinical families and couples to examine how prevalent implicit rules were in the two cultures. According to the findings, Hungarian families and couples scored lower on the total FIRP and CIRP scores. Hungarian families perceived implicit family rules regarding kindness and monitoring less prevalent, and rules regarding constraining their thoughts, feelings and self more prevalent than American families. No differences were found in expressiveness and connection and inappropriate caretaking of parents between the two cultures. Hungarian couples perceived their implicit relationship rules regarding kindness, expressiveness and connection and monitoring less prevalent than American couples. No differences in implicit rules about constraining thoughts, feelings and self and inappropriate caretaking of partner were found between the two cultures. Mothers in both cultures viewed their families in a more positive light than other family members, and female family members (mothers and daughters) were more positive than their male counterparts (fathers and sons) about rules in their families in both cultures. Sons in both cultures perceived more responsibility to protect their parents emotionally than did daughters. Married couples in both cultures perceived their relationship rules more favorably in terms of kindness and monitoring than cohabiting couples. Results were interpreted in the context of cultural differences between the American and the Hungarian cultures. Limitations and the possibility of future research are discussed.