Help-seeking barriers and facilitators for affected family members of a relative with alcohol and other drug misuse: A qualitative study

McCann, Terence V.; Lubman, Dan I.

doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2018.07.005

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“…Findings from the qualitative part of the study reported on AFMs’ experience of aggression and violence (McCann et al . ), stigma experience (McCann & Lubman ), adaptive coping strategies (McCann & Lubman ), and help‐seeking barriers and facilitators (McCann & Lubman ) are reported elsewhere.…”

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Affected family member coping with a relative with alcohol and/or other drug misuse: A cross‐sectional survey questionnaire

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Stephenson

Lubman

2018

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Families have a crucial role supporting a relative with alcohol and/or other drug misuse, but the role has adverse implications for family members’ coping, which in turn, affects their ability and willingness to support the relative. The aim of this study was to assess the coping behaviours of affected family members of relatives with alcohol and/or other drug misuse and to assess if there was a relationship between the level of coping and family member type and support‐giving experience. A cross‐sectional survey design was used, and 90 respondents completed the questionnaire. Results suggest the following associations: that ‘Other’ family members made more frequent use of maladaptive coping strategies than intimate partners (P = 0.012); family members whose role had a negative effect on their physical health made more frequent use of maladaptive coping strategies than those whose role did not have this effect (P = 0.014); and family members whose role had a negative effect on their ability to socialise used maladaptive coping strategies more often than those whose role did not have this effect (P = 0.003). Engaged and tolerant‐inactive maladaptive coping strategies had a significantly greater adverse influence on family members’ physical health and/or socialising than withdrawal coping strategies. Affected family members should be supported to use adaptive coping strategies to mitigate the detrimental effects of their support‐giving role and to sustain them in this crucial support‐giving role. Family and friends, mental health nurses, and other clinicians in the alcohol and other drug field have an important role in supporting family members in this context.

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Affected family member coping with a relative with alcohol and/or other drug misuse: A cross‐sectional survey questionnaire

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Stephenson

Lubman

2018

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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“…Although seeking help for others is recognized as something 'concerned significant others' or 'affected family members' do (Hing et al, 2013;McCann & Lubman, 2018), there has been little analytic investigation of how category membership plays a role in this kind of help-seeking. Rather than applying pre-determined analytic categories, I analysed the categories participants used for themselves.…”

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“…Seeking help for others in calls to victim support Social psychological research has demonstrated that social relations play an important role in people's decisions to seek or offer help (Levine & Cassidy, 2009) and that close personal relationships are associated with seeking help for others (Hing et al, 2013;McCann & Lubman, 2018). However, much less is known about how social relations shape help-seeking in naturally occurring interactions.…”

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“…Seeking information, advice, or arranging services for others is a widespread practice (Cutrona et al, 2015) recognized as a key form of social support (Reifegerste, Bachl, & Baumann, 2017). Although research indicates family relationships are important (Hing, Tiyce, Holdsworth, & Nuske, 2013;McCann & Lubman, 2018), this work largely operates with pre-determined definitions of relationships between help-seekers and help-recipients.…”

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‘I’m calling in regard to my son’: Entitlement, obligation, and opportunity to seek help for others

Tennent

2020

British J Social Psychol

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From mundane acts like lending a hand to high-stakes incidents like calling an ambulance, help is a ubiquitous part of the human experience. Social relations shape who we help and how. This paper presents a discursive psychology study of an understudied form of helpseeking help for others. Drawing on a corpus of recorded calls to a victim support helpline, I analysed how social relations were demonstrably relevant when callers sought help for others. I used membership categorization analysis and sequential conversation analysis to document how participants used categories to build and interpret requests for help on behalf of others. Categorical relationships between help-seekers, help-recipients, and potential help-providers were consequential in determining whether callers' requests were justified and if help could be provided. The findings show that different categorical relationships configured seeking help for others as a matter of entitlement, obligation, or opportunity. Analysing the categories participants use in naturally occurring social interaction provides an emic perspective on seeking help for others. This kind of helpseeking offers a fruitful area for discursive psychology to develop new conceptualizations of help and social relations.

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“…The help sought may be psychological, social, or material in nature. Various obstacles may hinder or inhibit help-seeking, including cultural attitudes and expectations, negative experiences of help services, doubts about confidentiality and privacy, as well as lack of information about available services (Lynch, Long, & Moorhead, 2018; McCann & Lubman, 2018; Seamark & Gabriel, 2018; Topkaya, 2015).…”

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Men’s Help-Seeking Attitudes in Rural Communities Affected by a Natural Disaster

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The article describes a mixed methods study of help-seeking in men living in the Chilean Central Valley, following exposure to a major earthquake event in 2010. The results identify that, within the sample, positive attitudes toward help-seeking correlated with younger age, higher education levels, above-average incomes, and stable personal relationships. It appears that education plays a significant role in shaping such positive attitudes, particularly by influencing views of gender roles and help-seeking. Conversely, older men’s reticence toward seeking help appeared linked to negative perceptions of available services and the influence of traditional notions of masculinity. The study concludes that adapting interventions and service offers to men’s needs in rural contexts must include an ecosystemic analysis of their reality and incorporate an understanding of masculinity socialization processes.

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Help-seeking barriers and facilitators for affected family members of a relative with alcohol and other drug misuse: A qualitative study

Cited by 43 publications

References 32 publications

Affected family member coping with a relative with alcohol and/or other drug misuse: A cross‐sectional survey questionnaire

Affected family member coping with a relative with alcohol and/or other drug misuse: A cross‐sectional survey questionnaire

‘I’m calling in regard to my son’: Entitlement, obligation, and opportunity to seek help for others

Men’s Help-Seeking Attitudes in Rural Communities Affected by a Natural Disaster

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