The purpose of this inquiry was to explore recovery from drug abuse from a mother's perspective. Women's experiences of treatment and recovery are unique from men's and mothers' experiences have been studied little (Poole & Dell, 2005). A series of three interviews were conducted during which the participant was encouraged to deeply explore her experience of recovery as a woman and a mother. This project was carried out using both Consensual Qualitative Research (Hill, Thompson, Hess, Knox, Williams, Ladany, 2005) as well as The Wish and Fear List (Perry, 1997). These two types of analyses complemented one another and provided two complementary views of the participant's experiences as both a woman and a recovered drug user within the context of her parenting. The themes of mothering, recovery and identity development, and respective sub-themes are discussed. The proportions of wishes and fears expressed at two phases in the participant's recovery journey are also discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.98583 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Sorbo, Adriana Carmela Tonia. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology.) |
| Rights | © Adriana Carmela Tonia Sorbo, 2006 |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002484170, proquestno: AAIMR24921, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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