Impact of Substance Abuse on Parent-Infant Relationship

Mental Health
Nursing Parent-infant
Mental Health
Literature Review

INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY............................................................................................................................................3
Significance of topic...........................................................................................................................3
Search strategy and identification of literature ................................................................................3
Critical analysis of the literature........................................................................................................4
Implications for Child and Family Health or Mental Health nursing practice.....................................5
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Practices and behaviour of parents have wide impact on their infants in both positive
as well as negative manner. Thus, substance abuse is the practices which conduct by parents
and have wide impact in negative manner on their infants (Seitz and et. al., 2019). Moreover,
substance abuse is related to the harmful as well as hazardous utilisation of psychoactive
substances. Here, substances include alcohol, illicit drugs and several others. This report will
be going to discuss how substance abuse give impact on parents and their infants relation
(Carver and et. al., 2017). Furthermore, it is divided in several sections such as importance of
topic, research strategy and recognition of literature, analysing essentials of literature as well
as implication for child and family health or mental health nursing practices.
MAIN BODY
Significance of topic
Substance abuse is most common practices which founded in 9 out of 10 families and
this give major impact on children in negative manner. According to the view pint of Rachel
and et. al., 2020 it has been determined that, Parents who are involved in substance use and
experience of an SUD result in giving negative impact on children. Along with this, it also
results in negative impact on lowering socioeconomic status in society as well as enhancing
difficulties within social setting and family functions (CHILDREN LIVING WITH PARENTS
WHO HAVE A SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER, 2017). Kids those parents are suffering from
SUD are in danger of experiencing direct impacts, for example, parental abuseness or
ignorance, or collateral impacts, for example, family facing economical imbalance. Earlier
explorations shows that negative impacts of parent SUDs may create impact on kids of SUD
parents that is may lead to illegal medication. In addition to this, on the basis of Survey on
Drug Use and Health at national level from 2009 to 2014 , it has been determined that about
more than 8 million children of age limit not more than 17 are residing in house with at least
one such parent had substance abuse. Moreover, it is characterized through utilisation of
alcohol as well as many other drugs which result in impairment at wide level (Brown and
Shillington, 2017). Furthermore, 1 in 10 children are living in such house which have at least
one parent who consume alcohol in past year. In simple term it can be said that, there are
numerous children who are going through substance abuse and it is important to take major
step in relation of same so that better outcomes will gain in effective manner.