title: [Consistency and firmness in rearing practices of parents of adolescent drug addicts].
abstract: This paper deals with the increasingly popular theoretical approaches to drug addiction as a "family disease". Many theories have appeared claming that ethiopathogenic role related to the family environment is of crucial importance in juvenikle drug consumption. The main objective is to understand, trough consideration of one part of family dynamics, the etiological potential of the juvenile drug addiction. This work focuses only on certain parts of parents' upbringing and variations in their upbringing practices, namely their consistency and strictness, which has been shown to reflect in disfucntional family systems producing juvenile drug addicts. The author cosiders two essential aspect of the upbringing practice and, by using relevant evaluation tools of these standarts, attempts to measure their importance in relation to adolescents who suffer of drug addiction (experimental group) and those who never had any contact with narcotics (control group). A part of the EMBU questionaire has been applied, which is the adolescent's memory of his/her parents' upbringing practices in the childhood and pre-juvenile period. Only two issues, which deal with the parents' firmness and consistency, have been selected as results of this method. Examination has been carried out individualy and obtained data analized by the chi square test. The results indicate distinctive differences with respect to the consistency and strictness of the upbringing methods of drug addict in comparison to control group of the examined juvenile.
authors.affiliation: Psihijatrijska klinika, Klinicki centar Univerziteta u Sarajevu.
authors.forename: Boro
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dukanović
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires