TY - JOUR AU - Costin, Alina AU - Bran, Liliana Renate PY - 2019/10/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - WHAT DO TEENAGERS PARENTS KNOW ABOUT DRUG USE AND HOW DO THEY UNDERSTAND PREVENTING IT? JF - Mental Health: Global Challenges Journal JA - MHGCJ VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.32437/mhgcj.v2i1.41 UR - https://mhgcj.org/index.php/MHGCJ/article/view/41 SP - 13 AB - <p><strong>Introduction</strong> On one hand, drug use has become an extremely welcomed subject<br>because it „needs to be”, and because it has to be treated seriously; on the other<br>hand, it is addressed to with great ignorance among all the actors directly involved<br>in handling this phenomenon. The problem of drug use, with all the dimensions of<br>it, must take care of this behavior and it can be classified as mental health<br>problems, which will have multiple consequences for their care in the health<br>plan. Literature has already become a classic, such as Learning Theories<br>(Bandura, 1986, Skinnere, Thorndike, etc.), Family-Based Theories and Systemic<br>Approach (Waldrom, 1998), and more recent works by Stephen J. Bahr, John P.<br>Hoffmann, Xiaoyan Yang, stresses the role of the family in building child<br>protection factors for substance use.</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>. The purpose of this research is to investigate<br>the parents of the high school students in Arad Municipality regarding the<br>information they have about drugs, their perception related to their child's<br>relationship with drugs and how they "treat" this topic.<br><strong>Design</strong> The qualitative information we want to obtain has imposed a specific<br>design for qualitative research. The study is descriptive and has a practical<br>orientation- it was carried out between June and September 2019.<br><strong>Methodology</strong>&nbsp;We have created 8 focus groups with parents of high school<br>students with different demographic characteristics (level of education, religion,<br>provenance, family status) and we have made 3 profound interviews for each<br>category of people we have selected.</p><p><strong>Results</strong> This paper presents the preliminary qualitative results of a study that is still in progress. The focus groups carried out indicates that the vast majority of parents treat this topic of consumption<br>superficially. Their parenting principle is based on building a strong, positive and<br>open relationship, but the child is a fundamental premise in preventing any deviat<br>behavior. But they have as a parenting principle that to build a strong positive, open and<br>dialogue relationship, but the child, which is a fundamental premise in preventing<br>any deviant behavior.</p><p><strong>Originality and Limitations</strong> The originality of this study and why it was realised is due<br>to the lack of information upon this subject, at least in this city, Arad, and the main<br>limitations consit in the imposibility of generating the conclusions regarding the<br>whole population concerned.</p> ER -