Parents Dealing with Children’s Addiction

Running Head: PARENTS DEALING CHILDREN’S ADDICTION
Parents Dealing with Children’s Addiction
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ABSTRACT
This research talks about the problems that parent from CLAD (Cultural, Linguistic Ability
and Diversity) background faces when their kids are addicted to either alcohol or drugs. The
immigrants who are forcefully displaced from their own country to a new country because of
some kind of problem in their homeland, go through a lot of trouble, they deal with a lot of
tension. So there are more stressors for them, these stressors somehow make them more
vulnerable to drugs or alcohol. There a lot research which focuses on the drugs that these
immigrants take but none of the researches talk about the problems that the parents of these
adolescents go through, this research will focus on the these parents and the way they support
each other.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................4
Immigrants in Australia..........................................................................................................4
Mental & Physical health Problems among the Ethnically and Culturally Diverse..............4
Drug & Alcohol Abuse among the Australian Population.....................................................5
Gap in Literature....................................................................................................................7
Research Questions....................................................................................................................8
Research Methodology...............................................................................................................9
Data Collection.......................................................................................................................9
Sample Size............................................................................................................................9
Sampling Method.................................................................................................................10
Data Analysis Method..........................................................................................................10
Limitations of the Research.................................................................................................10
Conclusion................................................................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................12
Appendix A..............................................................................................................................15
Ethical Considerations.........................................................................................................15
Appendix B..............................................................................................................................16
Interview Schedule...............................................................................................................16
Appendix C..............................................................................................................................17

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Introduction
Every year 60-70,000 refugees take asylum in Western countries, Australia is among
them. Each year Australia opens its gates for 5-10,000 refugees, making the country one of
the top refugee giving countries of the world. Among these refugees, 51 million of those
immigrants are displaced forcibly from their homelands because of some civil unrest or war
or conflict that has affected their own country. These refugees and immigrants experience a
high degree of trauma because taking asylum in a new country makes it difficult for them to
get access to food, water and a safe place to stay. This trauma can be exaggerated as
sometimes these immigrants lose their families while being displaced, sometimes they
witness an unbearable amount of violence, and they have to go through poverty even if they
were from an economically well-to-do family in their homeland. This sometimes leads them
to resort to alcohol or drug abuse. Studies have shown that drug and alcohol abuse among the
immigrant population is more than that of the host population. The ethnic and cultural
minorities are more prone to substance abuse and alcoholism as the experiences that they go
through are severe and there is a complete disruption of their lives which forces them to
resort to alcohol and drugs. In Australia, the young boys and girls who are of African descent
especially the Sudanese youth have been identifies in some studies as the ‘problem group’.
They are reportedly using drugs and drinking alcohol on a larger amount, these young
population experiences more mental health issues than any other population. It is of prime
importance to understand the reaction of the parents in these cases. When the children
experience these problems, the parents of these ethnically diverse families also go through the