Child and adolescent psychiatrists in their studies have stated that these children are at greater risk of having emotional problems than children with non alcoholic parents. People who live in cities other than the urban slum dwellers take up drinking as a part of their city culture. In rural India the alcohol consumption by the family heads is much more than that of the abuse in the towns. Even in India the situations are not very much different. In America and Europe, one in five adult lived with an alcoholic while growing up. Adolescents with parents, who abuse alcohol and create unhappy events in the family, develop a very tough nature that is not easily accepted in the family and society.įamily and adolescents in the context of alcoholism These transitions are biological, cognitive, social and emotional in nature. Rather, experts think of a passage from childhood into and through adolescence as compared of a set of transitions that unfold gradually and that touch upon many individual’s behaviour development and relationships. There is no single event or boundary line that denotes the end of childhood and beginning of adolescence. Historically puberty has been heavily associated with teenagers and the onset of adolescent development. According to the Eric Erikson’s stages of human development, adolescent is a person between the ages of 13 and 19 (Erikson, 1975). It is a time of moving from the immaturity of childhood into the maturity of adulthood. The word adolescence is a Latin word in its origin, derived from the verb adolescere, which means “to grow into adulthood”. Focus of the researcher in terms of the impact is on the self esteem and the adjustment of these adolescents to different situations like, school, teachers, peers, family, etc. Here the parental alcoholism implies to only the father alcoholism, for the mothers are not alcoholics in the particular region. Researcher aimed at understanding the impact of parental alcoholism on male adolescents of Mullenkolly Panchayat. The emotional and psychological abuse caused by inconsistency, rejection and verbal abuse has also been highlighted in various studies (NASW, 2006). This means children who are vulnerable to a host of problems where alcohol diverts the parent’s attention from the child (Sekar et al., 2007).When parental judgement is impaired under the influence of alcohol, children are at risk of suffering both intermittent and chronic neglect. ![]() Problem of alcohol misuse hit the family like a tidal wave, leaving those involved in a sea of anger, frustration, fear and isolation. An alcoholic is defined as a person who has problems from drinking but continues to drink anyway. It can cause number of medical problems, violence in person, and even death. Alcoholism also known as alcohol dependence is a chronic, progressive disease that affects millions of Indians. Possible social work implications, limitations of the study and directions for further research are presented in the paper.Īlcoholism is a growing problem with society today and many people who suffer from it do not even realise it. Researcher speaks of possible social work response to the situations of children with the problem of parental alcoholism. The respondents who are from the joint families reported to replicate higher self esteem too. This could be because of the strong support system they have in the family, who also share the same environment. The results testify that adolescents with parental alcoholism have poor adjustment capacities with school and teachers but adjust well with their home and environment. The study was conducted using a descriptive design, Mc Kinnon’s (1981) Self Esteem Index, Pre Adolescent Adjustment Scale (Pareek and Rao, 1970), self structured Sociodemographic data sheet and Focused Group Discussion. This paper is an exploration of the characteristic influence of self-esteem and social relations of 50 adolescents between the age group of 14 to 18 years, having a parent with problem of alcohol dependence. ![]() [ Download/print: *.pdf.Ĭyril John Moolakkatt, Christ University, India Global Academic Society Journal: Social Science Insight, Vol. Adolescent children of alcoholics: social work response.
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