Full-text resources of CEJSH and other databases are now available in the new Library of Science.
Visit https://bibliotekanauki.pl

Results found: 6

first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last

Search results

Search:
in the keywords:  adult children of alcoholics
help Sort By:

help Limit search:
first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last
PL
Autor dokonuje przeglądu literatury na temat dorosłych dzieci, które wychowywały się w rodzinach z problemem alkoholowym. Aktualne badania dotyczące DDA odnoszą się głównie do: (1) wskazania czynników sprzyjających nadużywaniu środków chemicznych przez DDA, (2) określenia problemów, z jakimi borykają się rodzice DDA, (3) wyodrębnienia czynników chroniących DDA przed wystąpieniem różnego rodzaju psychopatologii.
EN
The author reviews a current literature on adult children, who are brought up by families with alcoholic problem. The analysis concentrate on 3 groups of problem: on discovering the kinds of conflicts which children from alcoholic families experience, on researching factors which could determinate probabilities of psychopathology, and on psychoactive substance abuse by adult children from alcoholic families.
EN
Adult children of alcoholics are adults who spent a part of, or their whole childhood in a dysfunctional family, where the biggest problem was alcohol addiction in one or both parents. In families with parental alcoholism, there is usually a lot of dysfunction in interpersonal relationships and in the upbringing of the children, which does not provide a healthy and optimal developmental environment for the child. There is often physical and psychological violence, and other forms of abuse and neglect that children perceive as traumatic. All this leaves the child with severe consequences, which they also struggle with in adulthood. Unresolved and traumatic childhood content often remains repressed and unprocessed and helps shape one’s functioning in adulthood, which is frequently emotionally and socially immature. Adult children of alcoholics often have problems in experiencing and regulating their emotions, as they had to carry many emotional burdens in a dysfunctional family, while they had no real opportunity for the healthy development of emotional regulation. The article will present research on the emotional experience of children with their alcoholic parents and how they recognize related consequences in their adult lives. Using the content analysis method, we analyzed 71 anonymous forum posts on the counselling forum on the topic “Adult children of alcoholics.” The directed approach to content analysis was used to validate forum posts by people who described their childhood experiences with an alcoholic parent. We identified parts of the content that fell into two predetermined categories: emotional experience in childhood with an alcoholic parent and the experience of its consequences in adulthood. The results showed that the adult children of alcoholics mostly experienced severe feelings of fear, shame, sadness and disgust with their alcoholic parents in their childhood, and that these feelings have remained unprocessed. In adulthood, they struggle with negative consequences in the personal sphere (e.g. poor self-esteem, inferiority, anxiety, depression), in interpersonal relationships (e.g. problems in partnerships, mistrust, social phobia, parental stress, complicated relationships with parents) and in everyday functioning (e.g. coping with one’s own addiction, dysfunctional behavioural patterns), but they also recognize that because of this experience they have managed to lay the foundations of their lives differently and better. The results confirm that children are hidden victims of parental alcoholism and justify the need for psychosocial and therapeutic support even in their adulthood.
EN
Children in alcoholic families are exposed to destructive patterns of behaviour. To adapt to difficult situations and survive, they play various roles. However, these roles, when transferred into adulthood, act against them. Adult children of alcoholics live with the stigma of co-dependency rooted in childhood. The subjects of the research whose results I present in this article were retrospectively told life stories of the adult children of alcoholics (ACA). I was interested in various aspects of their childhood memories and, above all, in the strategies they chose for dealing with the past. I applied a biographical interview with elements of self-narration to collect data.
4
75%
EN
In research that is carried out using H.G Gough's and A.B. Heilbrun Jr's The Adjective Checklist with modified instruction, we have reached confirmation of the occurence of similarities between the image of the parents, self and the image of God, as assumed in object relations theory. A subject group of Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) of 32 women and 31 men was compared with a group without psychological burdens and analogous in age and number. We found evident difference in their self image and image of God: ACA women judge themselves more negatively as compared to the control group and their image of God is less similar to the image of their own father.
EN
The article aimed to reconstruct and describe the biographical learning of an individual who had undergone the process of psychotherapy for adult children of alcoholics. The central category that emerged from the analysis of the fragmentarily presented empirical material, is the issue of reflective identity building. The author, adopting the assumptions of Anthony Giddens’ theory of late modernity and Peter Altheit’s biographical learning, creates a conceptual framework in which he embeds the narrator’s statements collected using narrative interview methods. The fragment of research presented here, carried out in the biographical perspective, allows the author to select a number of features of the process of reconstructing identity in the therapeutic discourse – characteristic of late modernity. The axis that connects these features, additionally connecting biographical learning with therapeutic processes, is reflexivity, which in the form of self-reflexivity is the main driving force of the inner ‘great revolution’ of identity in the narrator’s life.
PL
Celem niniejszego artykułu jest rekonstrukcja oraz opis biograficznego uczenia się osoby, która przeszła proces psychoterapii dla dorosłych dzieci alkoholików. Centralną kategorią, która wyłania się z toku analizy fragmentarycznie zaprezentowanego materiału empirycznego, jest kwestia refleksyjnego budowania tożsamości. Autor, przyjmując założenia teorii późnej nowoczesności Anthony’ego Giddensa oraz biograficznego uczenia się Petera Alheita, tworzy pojęciową ramę, w której osadza – zebrane w wyniku wywiadu narracyjnego – wypowiedzi narratorki. Przedstawiony fragment realizowanych w perspektywie biograficznej badań pozwala autorowi na wyłonienie szeregu cech procesu rekonstruowania tożsamości w – charakterystycznym dla późnej nowoczesności – dyskursie terapeutycznym. Osią łączącą te cechy, a także łączącą biograficzne uczenie się z procesami terapeutycznymi jest refleksyjność, która w postaci autorefleksyjności jest w życiu narratorki głównym kołem zamachowym jej wewnętrznej, tożsamościowej „wielkiej rewolucji”.
EN
The article highlights the difficulties most frequently mentioned in the literature on the subject that adult children of alcoholics experience in various spheres of functioning at the stage of adulthood. People from alcoholic families are considered to be particularly susceptible to addiction to psychoactive substances. In view of the accepted facts, the presented research problem focuses on the respondents' experiences regarding the presence of alcohol in their adult life.
PL
W artykule uwydatnione zostały najczęściej wzmiankowane w literaturze przedmiotu trudności jakich doświadczają dorosłe dzieci alkoholików w różnych sferach funkcjonowania na etapie dorosłości. Osobom pochodzącym z rodzin alkoholowych przypisuje się szczególną podatność na uzależnienia od substancji psychoaktywnych. Wobec przyjętych faktów postawiony problem badawczy skupia się na doświadczeniach respondentów dotyczących obecności alkoholu w ich dorosłym życiu.
first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.