Thesis (M Social Work)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Non-biological caregivers often take children into their care when their own biological caregivers have failed to provide them with a safe and loving home. These children are often also affected with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). Learning of a child’s disability can be a big shock to non-biological caregivers especially if it is misunderstood, available professional help is scarce and intervention resources are not readily available. These non-biological caregivers are often not prepared for the financial, emotional and physical investment that is required to fully support the children and their development. This can cause various emotional reactions and implications that are challenging for the caregivers. It is critical to recognise parenting experiences and challenges as a means of developing and promoting intervention strategies and support that will respond to the needs of the children with FASD and their non-biological caregivers especially from a South African perspective. There is a need for social workers to take on responsibility for addressing FASD as they have the professional capacity to help families living with FASD to develop and maintain stable and nurturing households. One way in which this can be achieved is through the initiation and facilitation of support groups. The goal of the study was to gain an understanding on the experiences of non-biological caregivers of children with FASD and of the utilisation of support groups to help them cope better. The researcher made use of a combination of an exploratory and descriptive research design. By using both a quantitative and qualitative approach in a complimentary manner, the researcher was able to gain an in depth insight into the lives of the non-biological caregivers and how they experience this disability and support groups that are utilised as a means of helping them cope. Permission to conduct the study was granted by the committee for Human Research at the University of Stellenbosch. The literature study firstly investigated the implication of FASD on affected children. Secondly, the extents to which non-biological caregivers are affected by the consequences of this disability were discussed. After this the utilisation of support groups as a method of supporting non-biological caregivers, with the emphasis on a mutual-aid and educational approach as theoretical underpinning was described. The empirical study was completed with 16 participants through face-to-face, semi-structured interviews. An interview schedule based on the findings of the literature study was utilised. The criteria for inclusion were that participants had to have attended at least 5 support group sessions and had to be a non-biological caregiver of FASD children who had attended the support groups specifically related to this disorder. The results of this study mostly confirmed the findings from the literature study which showed that support groups play a vital role in providing necessary support to non-biological caregivers who are often unprepared for the realities of caring for a FASD child. Recommendations are aimed at the social work profession in South Africa who need to align itself in providing necessary support to non-biological caregivers through the use of support groups and various other methods of service rendering. Suggestions for future research are also made in line with how non-biological caregivers can be supported in their unique caregiver responsibilities. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Nie-biologiese versorgers neem dikwels kinders in hul sorg wanneer kinders se biologiese ouers versuim om vir hulle ‘n veilige en liefdevolle huis en omgewing te skep. Hierdie kinders kan ook ly aan of geaffekteer word deur Fetale Alkohol Spektrum Versteuring (FASV). Dit kan ‘n groot skok wees wanneer versorgers uitvind dat die kind geaffekteer is daardeur, veral as hierdie versteuring misverstaan word. Professionele hulp is skaars, en intervensies en hulpbronne is nie vryelik beskikbaar nie. Versorgers is dikwels nie voorbereid op die finansiële, emosionele en fisiese eise wat nodig is om ten volle die kind se ontwikkeling te ondersteun nie. Dit kan dit lei tot verskillende emosionele reaksies met verskeie gevolge wat opsigself ook verskeie uitdagings vir die nie- biologiese versorgers veroorsaak. Dit is van kritieke belang om die ervarings en uitdagings van ouerskap te verken in die bevordering en ontwikkeling van intervensiestrategieë ter ondersteuning van die behoeftes van die kinders met FASV en hul versorgers, veral vanuit ‘n Suid-Afrikaanse perspektief. Daar word vereis van maatskaplike werkers om verantwoordelikheid te neem vir die aanspreek van FASV, aangesien hulle die professionele kapasiteit het om families wat geaffekteer is te help, en om hulle by te staan sodat ‘n stabiele en koesterende huishouding ontwikkel en volgehou kan word. Een manier waarop dit bereik kan word, is deur die vestiging en fasilitering van ondersteuningsgroepe. Die doel van hierdie studie was om ‘n begrip te ontwikkel oor die ervarings van nie-biologiese versorgers van kinders met FASV se benutting van ondersteuningsgroepe. Die navorser het gebruik gemaak van ‘n kombinasie van ‘n verkennende en beskrywende navorsing. Deur die gebruik van beide ʼn kwantitatiewe en kwalitatiewe benadering, is die navorser in staat gestel om ‘n indiepte insig in die lewens van die versorgers te bekom, en ondersoek in te stel oor hul ervarings van die versteuring/gestremdheid deur ondersteuningsgroepe wat as intervensie aangewend is. Toestemming om die studie te doen is deur die Etiese Komitee vir Menslike Navorsing aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch bekom. Eerstens is die literatuurstudie voltooi waarin die navorser ondersoek ingestel het oor die implikasies van FASV op geaffekteerde kinders. Tweedens is daar bespreek hoe nie-biologiese versorgers geraak word deur die gevolge van hierdie versteuring/gestremdheid. Daarna is ondersteuningsgroepe as ‘n metode van ondersteuning aan versorgers ondersoek, en klem is gelê op ‘n wedersydse hulpbenadering en ‘n opvoedkundige benadering as teoretiese grondslag. Die empiriese studie is voltooi met 16 deelnemers deur middel van individuele, een-tot-een, semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude. ‘n Onderhoudskedule, wat gebaseer is op die bevindinge van die literatuurstudie, is gebruik. Die kriteria vir deelname aan die studie en groep het ingesluit dat deelnemers ten minste vyf sessies van ‘n ondersteuningsgroep moes bywoon en ook ‘n pleegouer wees van ‘n FASV kind. Die resultate van hierdie studie het meestal die bevindinge uit die literatuurstudie bevestig en het getoon dat ondersteuningsgroepe ‘n belangrike rol speel in ondersteuning aan nie-biologiese versorgers, wat dikwels onvoorbereid is op die werklike problematiek van die versorging van ‘n kind met FASV. Aanbevelings word gerig aan die maatskaplikewerk-professie in Suid-Afrika, ten einde ondersteuningsgroepe en ander metodes van dienslewering te bied, ter ondersteuning aan die versorgers van FASV kinders. Voorstelle vir verdere navorsing word ook gemaak sodat daar ‘n ondersteuningsnetwerk opgebou kan word vir die versorgers van ‘n FASV kind ten einde aan hulle unieke versorgingsbehoeftes te voorsien.

Bakgrund: Alkoholkonsumtionen ökar i världen idag. Den ökade alkoholkonsumtionen leder till sociala, ekonomiska och medicinska svårigheter. Konsumtionen av alkohol beräknas leda till 3,3 miljoner dödsfall årligen. Många allvarliga sjukdomstillstånd förekommer till följd av alkoholkonsumtion och samtidigt växer många barn upp i dysfunktionella miljöer som leder till psykisk ohälsa och alkoholproblem senare i livet. Alkoholen bidrar också till olyckor, våld och kriminalitet. Alkohol klassas som ett av de större folkhälsoproblemen idag och är en stor utgiftsbörda för samhället. Syfte: Syftet med litteraturöversikten var att genom granskning av tidigare gjorda studier undersöka faktorer associerade med alkoholmissbruk bland vuxna svenska män och kvinnor över 18 år. Metod: Genom en litteraturöversikt har 10 vetenskapliga artiklar genomgått analys och sammanställts till ett resultat som besvarar syftet med studien. Resultat: Resultaten visar att miljö, ko-morbiditet (samsjuklighet), psykisk ohälsa, socioekonomi, sociodemografi och biologiska faktorer är avgörande vad gäller att utveckla alkoholproblem bland vuxna svenskar över 18 år. Slutsats: Resultatet från litteraturöversikten visade att faktorer som hörde samman med uppväxtmiljö, komorbiditet, ärftlighet, psykisk hälsa, socioekonomiska- och sociodemografi hade betydelse för utvecklandet av alkoholmissbruk. Interventioner med bevisad effekt på minskad alkoholkonsumtion ansågs vara behjälpliga för att komma tillrätta med alkoholmissbruket.

The Purpose of the study was to highlight the primary care managers' perception of the barriers and opportunities in the implementation of the national guidelines for harmful drinking and alcohol abuse in KalmarCounty. The data was collected by questionnaires which were directed to all primary care managers in the county. The response rate was low, 40%. The data collection was complemented at a later stage with a non-response analysis. To analyze the results implementation theory with following terms were used: wants to, understand and know. In this study, the managers response showed an ambivalence and the willingness to use the national guidelines were not evident. On the one hand, patients with for harmful drinking and alcohol abuse is a tasks for primary care, but on the other hand, it was considered to a greater extent to be social services responsibility. The understanding of the use of guidelines existed and primary care has a tradition of making use of the guidelines, however in this case the respondents lack education. The ability to implement the national guidelines seemed lacking, which may be due to increased tasks and radical changes involving time constraints.

<p> </p><p>We are aware of the fact that elderly people suffering from alcoholism doesn’t stop their be-haviour the day they turn 65. But when they do turn 65, they might become a case for social workers who only handle cases regarding people over 65, and we wanted to find out if they have any experience of working with elderly who have problems related to alcohol. We de-cided that a group interview, a focus group, would be the best method when our purpose was to try discovering their own experiences, so we interviewed seven social workers in the Stockholm area. The interview was based on four main questions: the social workers experi-ences, difficulties in the cases, how to handle the difficulties and how the social workers talk about these cases among themselves. These questions were analysed with the theory of social construction, Bourdieu´s theory of doxa and Goffman´s theory of stigma. The analyse showed that the social workers had experience but that they didn’t want more recourses, they wanted a cooperation with social workers who specializes on clients with alcohol related problems. They currently focus on the individual, not the alcohol issue which we believe might be a problem in the future.</p>

Syfte: Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva sjuksköterskans attityder och faktorer av betydelse för bemötande av patienter med drog och- alkoholmissbruk samt vilka datainsamlingsmetoder som används i de studier som ligger till underlag för resultatet. Metod: En Beskrivande litteraturstudie där databasen PubMed användes för att hitta vetenskapliga artiklar. 4 kvantitativa och 8 kvalitativa artiklar inkluderades i studien och granskades och sammanställdes av författaren. Resultat: Resultatet visade att sjuksköterskans attityder och faktorer av betydelse för bemötande i vården till missbrukare var negativa. Sjuksköterskorna hade en stigmatiserande syn på denna patientgrupp som kunde bero på den oförutsägbara situation där patienterna plötsligt blev aggressiva, och hotfulla situationer kunde uppstå. Även den osäkerhet som fanns hur man skulle bemöta dessa gjorde att det blev ett sämre bemötande. Attityderna och bemötandet sågs bli bättre hos de med drog och alkoholutbildning i samband med stöd i sin yrkesroll. Granskning av den metodologiska aspekten visade att alla de inkluderade artiklarna beskrivit datainsamlingsmetoden. De flesta använde sig av semistrukturerade intervjuer och frågeformulär för att samla in data. Slutsats: Alla patientgrupper skall vårdas på lika villkor, även de med missbruksproblem. För att attityderna och bemötandet ska förbättras krävs det att sjuksköterskorna får den utbildning och kunskap som behövs. / Background: Drug and alcohol abuse cause health problems. Nurses meet drug and alcohol dependent patients in all health care facilities. Lack of knowledge, negative attitudes and prejudice against addicted people is present in all of society. The nurses' professional approach can be affected when treating patients with a drug and alcohol dependency. All people have the right to adequate treatment regardless of being an addict. Aim: The aim of this literature study was to describe the nurses' attitudes and treatment of towards patients with drug and- alcoholabuse. The aim was also to describe the kind of data collection methods used for the result. Method: A descriptive literature study which the database PubMed was used to find scientific articles. 4 quantitative articles and 8 qualitative were included in the study and were reviewed and compiled by the author. Results: Nurses' treatment of and attitudes towards addicts in the health care system was generally negative. Nurses had a stigmatized view of this patient group which could be due to the unpredictable situations where patients suddenly became aggressive and threatening situations arised. There was also an insecurity of how to approach these patients which led to an inferior treatment. Personel which had gone through education in drug and alcohol abuse showed improved attitudes and treatment of such patients.Review of the methodological aspect showed that all the included articles did describe their data collection method. Most used semi-structured interviews and questionnaires in order to collect data. Conclusion: All patient groups should be treated on equal terms, also those with addiction problems. To improve the treatment and attitudes towards drug and alcohol dependent patients, nurses need the appropriate education and knowledge.

Research consistently has revealed the damaging consequences of children's repeated exposure to community violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the most commonly cited internalizing disorder associated with such exposure. However, not all children who are exposed to community violence develop PTSD symptoms; thus, it is important to identify factors that contribute to this deleterious relationship. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relation of community violence exposure (CVE)and PTSD in a sample of urban adolescents. Additionally, the study assessed whether a maternal history of alcohol or drug abuse would exacerbate the association of CVE andPTSD symptoms in youth. Furthermore, deficient parenting and poorer psychological functioning of the substance-abusing mother was examined as a possible explanation of the relation of maternal substance abuse to community violence exposure and PTSD. Participants included 309 biological mothers and their 5th or 8th grade children (N = 309dyads) who were recruited from high-violence neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia. Youth and their maternal caregivers completed separate home interviews. Results revealed that greater violence exposure (witnessing violence and direct victimization)was associated with higher levels of PTSD symptoms in youth. Additionally, maternalalcohol abuse history exacerbated the relation between witnessed violence and PTSD symptoms. At low levels of witnessed violence, mother's alcohol use type did not influence PTSD symptoms; however, as levels of witnessed violence increase, youthwhose mothers were classified as having a positive alcohol abuse history were more likely to report higher levels of PTSD symptoms. Furthermore, parental knowledge was an independent predictor of PTSD symptoms in each of the models. Lower levels of parental knowledge were associated with higher levels of youth-reported PTSD symptoms. Overall, the study findings support the need to examine moderating and mediating factors of the relation between CVE and PTSD among youth.

Introdução: O estudo da atitude dos profissionais de saúde frente ao álcool, ao alcoolismo e ao alcoolista ainda é escasso na literatura brasileira, e, em relação às atitudes dos psicólogos e estudantes de psicologia, não estão disponíveis na literatura nacional estudos que tenham se ocupado desse fenômeno. Após os movimentos sanitaristas da reforma psiquiátrica no Brasil, no final da década de 1980, houve aumento significativo desses profissionais em vários serviços de saúde, inclusive naqueles destinados ao atendimento de pessoas com problemas relacionados ao álcool e ao alcoolismo. O que torna importante identificar questões relacionadas ao preparo e às atitudes dos futuros profissionais de psicologia frente ao álcool, ao alcoolismo e ao alcoolista. Objetivo: Verificar e analisar as atitudes dos estudantes de psicologia frente ao álcool, ao alcoolismo e ao alcoolista. Método: Estudo exploratório de abordagem psicométrica, realizado com uma amostra de 159 estudantes do último ano do curso de psicologia de três faculdades da cidade de São Paulo. Para coleta de dados utilizou-se a Escala de Atitudes Frente ao Álcool, ao Alcoolismo e ao Alcoolista (EAFAAA) e um questionário sociodemográfico. Para análise dos dados utilizaram-se testes da estatística descritiva (frequências simples, porcentagens e médias) e para verificar se existia diferenças de atitude entre os três grupos realizou-se uma análise de variância. Resultados: Observou-se que, de modo geral, os 159 estudantes apresentaram tendência de atitudes positivas frente ao álcool, ao alcoolismo e ao alcoolista. Os estudantes das três faculdades apresentaram atitudes positivas para os fatores 1 (o trabalhar e o se relacionar com o alcoolista) e 2 (as atitudes frente ao alcoolista). Houve diferença estatística significativa (p=0,005) para os fatores 3 (atitudes frente ao alcoolismo, etiologia) e 4 (as atitudes frente ao uso do álcool) e na escala total para a Faculdade A em relação às faculdades B e C. A verificação de confiabilidade da EAFAAA estimada pelo alfa de Cronbach indicou boa consistência interna (0,90). Conclusão: Os estudantes de psicologia apresentaram tendência a atitudes positivas, segundo os resultados da EAFAAAA. Os estudantes da faculdade que tiveram experiência ou contato com o alcoolista apresentaram atitudes mais positivas do que aqueles que só tiveram preparo em sala de aula. Assim a necessidade de rever a grade curricular e a inserção de estudantes de psicologia, desde a graduação, em serviços de atenção especializados ao usuário de álcool é de extrema relevância social. / Introduction: The study of the attitudes of health professionals towards alcohol, alcoholism and the alcoholic is still scarce in Brazilian literature, and the attitudes of psychologists and psychology students, are not available in the national studies that have been busy this phenomenon. After the movements sanitary psychiatric reform in Brazil in the late 1980s, a significant increase of these professionals in various health services, including those intended to care for people with alcohol problems and alcoholism. What makes it important to identify issues related to the preparation and attitudes of future professionals in psychology towards alcohol, alcoholism and alcoholics. Aim: To investigate and analyze the attitudes of psychology students towards alcohol, alcoholism and alcoholics. Method: An exploratory study of psychometric approach, conducted with a sample of 159 students of the final year psychology three colleges of the city of São Paulo. For data collection we used the Scale of Attitudes Towards Alcohol, Alcoholism and alcoholics (EAFAAA), and a demographic questionnaire. Data analysis tests were used descriptive statistics (simple frequencies, percentages and means) and to check whether attitudinal differences existed among the three groups performed an analysis of variance. Results: It was observed that, in general, the 159 students showed a trend of positive attitudes towards alcohol, alcoholism and alcoholics. Students from the three schools showed positive attitudes to factors 1 (the work and relate to the alcoholic) and 2 (attitudes towards alcoholic). There was a statistically significant difference (p = 0.005) for the three factors (attitudes toward alcoholism, etiology) and 4 (attitudes towards alcohol use) and full scale for the College in relation to colleges B and C. A reliability check of EAFAAA estimated by Cronbach\'s alpha indicated good internal consistency (0.90). Conclusion: The psychology students tended to have positive attitudes, according to the results of EAFAAAA. College students who have had experience or contact with alcoholics showed more positive attitudes than those who had only preparation in the classroom. Thus the need to revise the curriculum and the inclusion of psychology students, since graduating in specialized care services to the user of alcohol is of utmost social relevance

Submitted by Sandra Pereira (srpereira@ufrrj.br) on 2017-04-19T12:11:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015 - Fernanda Cristina da Silva Ribeiro.pdf: 1089887 bytes, checksum: 48527c43fbbca15377e461dc0ba00752 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-19T12:11:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015 - Fernanda Cristina da Silva Ribeiro.pdf: 1089887 bytes, checksum: 48527c43fbbca15377e461dc0ba00752 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-31 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / Drug use is not a recent human behaviour. Since early history, there are indicators of substance use allied to therapeutic ends, recreational, spiritual and even feeding purposes, as in alcoholic drinks, for instance. An issue that lies in this route is: How drug use affects teenagers today? Which aspects ? subjective, historical and socio-economic ? are implied in the current adolescent drug use (specifically, in the present study, alcohol use)? Basic conjecture in this research is that alcohol is related to glamour in present society and this can be found in adolescent speech. In order to deepen this matter investigation, we bring as our main objective to verify if abusive alcohol use is related to glamour in present society under adolescent point of view. Our specific objectives were: i) Investigate what adolescents tell concerning abusive alcohol use during adolescence, pervading personal and contextual issues; ii) Verify how canonical speech found in media on alcohol use (specially on popular music and on TV ads) presentifies itself in adolescent speech. To do so, a qualitative, descriptive research was carried on, having as instrument a semi-structured interview done with two teenagers ? a male and a female. Both respondents were aged eighteen and attended their last year at high school in a small town in Rio de Janeiro State. Interviews were recorded in video, integrally transcribed, and speeches were analyzed. Found data were sorted into two categories: adolescent speech on abusive alcohol use ? in which the way adolescents describe relation between adolescence and alcohol was approached ?; and canonic influence over adolescent speech ? in which there was an attempt to approach the matter of socio-cultural influence over adolescent identity constitution. Found results confirmed initial conjecture: alcohol glamorization speech, conveyed by media, overestimation of exaggerate alcohol consumption and consequent status promoted by this behavior are present in adolescent speech. However, adolescents do not assume this speech as originated from media or cultural influence, and relate it solely to peer pressure, spotting friends and older young people influence. We came to the conclusion that speech displayed on media and hegemonic culture exercises their symbolic power over in such way that its influence is not always noticed on people?s everyday discourse and behaviour. It is suggested, thus, utterly necessary the promotion of more space to dialogue and idea exchange on the theme (since it is on speech that ruptures take place and criticism is developed), once alcohol abuse overvaluation is understood as incentive to risky behaviour, not only concerning adolescents, but also taking into consideration a global public health matter. In this instance, it is peremptory multiple social spheres mobilization towards more incisive regulation of media and its multiple agents. / O uso de drogas n?o ? um comportamento recente do ser humano. Desde o in?cio de sua hist?ria, h? ind?cios de utiliza??o de subst?ncias encontradas na natureza para fins terap?uticos, recreativos, espirituais e at? aliment?cios, como no caso das bebidas alco?licas. Uma quest?o que se configura nesse percurso ?: Como o tema repercute no adolescente na atualidade? Que aspectos subjetivos, assim como socioculturais, hist?ricos e pol?tico-econ?micos, est?o envolvidos no uso que os jovens fazem atualmente das drogas (especificamente, neste estudo, do ?lcool)? A conjectura b?sica desta pesquisa ? que o ?lcool relaciona-se ao glamour na sociedade atual e isso pode ser encontrado na narrativa do adolescente. Para aprofundar o estudo dessa quest?o, este trabalho traz como objetivo geral verificar se o uso abusivo do ?lcool relaciona-se ao glamour na sociedade atual sob o ponto de vista do adolescente. Os objetivos espec?ficos s?o: i) Investigar o que o adolescente narra a respeito do uso abusivo do ?lcool na adolesc?ncia, perpassando quest?es pessoais e contextuais, ii)Verificar como o discurso can?nico encontrado na m?dia a respeito do uso de ?lcool (principalmente propagandas televisivas e m?sica popular) se presentifica na narrativa do adolescente. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa descritiva, qualitativa, utilizando uma entrevista semi-estruturada dirigida a dois adolescentes, de ambos os sexos. Os sujeitos escolhidos tinham como caracter?stica comum ter dezoito anos completos e cursar o terceiro ano do ensino m?dio em uma cidade do interior do RJ. As entrevistas foram gravadas em v?deo, transcritas integralmente, e foi realizada uma an?lise narrativa desse texto. Os dados encontrados foram divididos em duas categorias: narrativas adolescentes a respeito do uso abusivo do ?lcool ? na qual foi abordada a maneira que os adolescentes descrevem a rela??o entre adolesc?ncia e ?lcool ?, e influ?ncia can?nica na narrativa adolescente ? na qual buscou-se abordar a quest?o da influ?ncia do contexto s?cio cultural na constitui??o identit?ria do adolescente. Os resultados encontrados apontaram para a confirma??o da conjectura inicial: o discurso da glamouriza??o do abuso de ?lcool, dispon?vel nas m?dias, da hipervaloriza??o do exagero no consumo e do status promovido por esse comportamento ? presentificado na narrativa dos adolescentes. Entretanto, os mesmos n?o reconhecem a influ?ncia desse discurso como sendo de origem midi?tica ou cultural e a relacionam a um comportamento exclusivo dos grupos de pares, endere?ando a influ?ncia ? amigos e adolescentes mais velhos. Conclu?mos que os discursos dispostos nas m?dias e na cultura hegem?nica operam seu poder simb?lico na canocidade cotidiana de forma tal que sua influ?ncia nem sempre ? percebida nas falas e comportamentos repetidos diariamente. E considera-se preciso que se promovam mais espa?os para os di?logos e narrativas sobre a tem?tica, pois ? na narrativa que as rupturas acontecem, e desenvolve-se a criticidade. Uma vez que a valoriza??o do abuso de ?lcool ? compreendida como incentivo a comportamentos de risco, n?o apenas na adolesc?ncia, mas que implica numa quest?o de sa?de p?blica global. Nesse sentido, faz-se premente a mobiliza??o das m?ltiplas esferas sociais em prol de uma regulamenta??o mais incisiva da m?dia e seus diversos ve?culos

Psykisk ohälsa som kan ha sin grund i att ha vuxit upp med alkoholberoende föräldrar är problematisk. Psykiatrisjuksköterskan bör vara medveten om hur en främjad psykisk hälsa för denna målgrupp kan uppnås inom den psykiatriska vården. Det är därför viktigt att beskriva hur psykiatrisjuksköterskor arbetar personcentrerat med denna patientgrupp i vårdsituationer. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva hur psykiatrisjuksköterskan inom vuxenpsykiatrin genom personcentrerad omvårdnad främjar psykisk hälsa för vuxna med föräldrar som har ett alkoholmissbruk. Metod: Data samlades in från sex semistrukturerade intervjuer och analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Resultatmaterialet presenterade följande kategorier: Skapa förtroende och tillit, Identifiera behov av insatser, Arbeta i team kring patienten, Få patienten att ta ansvar för sina egna val samt Låta patienten påverka planerade insatser. Slutsats: Sjuksköterskorna som deltog i studien menade att motivering och stärkande av patienten att ta ansvar var centrala aspekter. / Mental illness that may be due to having grown up with alcohol addicted parents is problematic. The psychiatric nurse should be aware of how a promoted mental health for this target group can be achieved in psychiatric careIt is therefore important to describe how psychiatric nurses work person-centered with this patient group in care situations. Aim: To describe how nurses within adult psychiatric care throw Person-Centered care can promote continuous development of psychiatric health regarding adults with parents who have an alcohol abuse. Method:Data was collected from six semi-structured interviews and analyzed with qualitative content analysis. Result: The result material presented the following categories; Create Confidence and trust, Identify need for efforts, Work in team around patient, Get patient to take responsibility for their own choices, and Let the patient affect planned efforts. Conclusion: The nurses who participated in the study argued that the motivation and strengthening of the patient to take responsibility were central aspects.

This project study addressed the problem of alcohol and binge drinking at a local rural college campus in the Northeast United States and the lack of an effective long-term academic intervention program to address the problem. The purpose of this research study was to determine the prevalence of the problem of the alcohol abuse problem and to develop a long-term program that would respond to the problem of repeat alcohol offenders. Guided by Mezirow’s transformative learning theory, which holds that transformational learning causes changes in a learner that significantly shift the pattern of a learner’s future experiences, this study examined the awareness by participants of the prevalence of alcohol abuse on the college campus and explored alcohol intervention programs. A qualitative, instrumental case study research design was used and involved interviews with 6 key professional stakeholders and 5 students. Interview transcripts were color coded and thematically analyzed. The themes that developed from the interviews revealed discrepant perspectives regarding the prevalence of the problem, and the discovery that no long-term intervention is available to students who are repeat offenders. The analysis of the data revealed the need for an increased awareness of the problem, as well as the development of a long-term program that contained an academic curriculum that addressed the problem of alcohol abuse and binge drinking for the repeat offender. This project study has the potential to revise to alcohol abuse programs and may spawn an awareness of the problem of heavy alcohol consumption. Student participation in the long-term program may offer greater student academic success and the avoidance of academic expulsion, thereby creating an important social change for those students who are repeat alcohol offenders.