Parents' Views on Child Welfare's Response to Addiction
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Issue Date
1997-01-01Author
Akin, Rebecca A.
Gregoire, Thomas K.
Publisher
Alliance for Children and Families
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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The helping system often responds to parents recovering from addiction in a way that reinforces their powerlessness and may perpetuate their addiction. This study identified worker and agency qualities that contribute to parents' recovery and family reunification. The authors conducted a qualitative study of successful clients of the child welfare system who regained their children after recovering from addiction. These parents describe the importance of workers' understanding the context of addiction from the parent's perspective.
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This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://alliance1.metapress.com/home/main.mpx.
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Akin, Rebecca A. (2013). "Parents' Views on Child Welfare's Response to Addiction." Families in Society, 78(4):393-404. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.797.
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