Pregnant substance abusers and their therapists in compulsory and voluntary treatment. A qualitative study: Intergenerational learning, attachment processes and the wish for a normal life.
Year: 2018
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Pregnant, substance abusing women and their therapists in compulsory and voluntary treatment.\n\nSubstance use during pregnancy has become a significant problem and has led to accelerated attempts to develop specific treatments. Use of coercion against pregnant women who misuse substances was legalized in Norway in 1996. The basis for more intensive treatment for this group of women is primarily aimed at protecting the unborn child; and such treatment requires strong motivation from the women to work towards abstinence. This study explore similarities and differences in the reflective attachment to the unborn child with pregnant substance abusing women in both voluntary and compulsory treatment. In addition, to understand more of what kind of challenges these women faced, they were asked to describe their own situations, and how their experience of connection to their unborn child varied in the different treatment contexts. Another aim of this study was to explore therapist’s discourses on treatment processes when working with pregnant substance abusers in voluntary and coercive treatment, and looking for the clinical implications of these discourses’.
Author: Siv Merete Myra
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2942595604