TY - JOUR
T1 - Incarcerated women’s relationship-based strategies to avoid drug use after community re-entry
AU - Snell-Rood, Claire
AU - Staton-Tindall, Michele
AU - Victor, Grant
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2016/10/2
Y1 - 2016/10/2
N2 - While recent research has stressed the supportive role that family and friends play for incarcerated persons as they re-enter the community, drug-using incarcerated women re-entering the community often have to rely on family, community, and intimate relationships that have played a role in their substance abuse and criminalization. In this study the authors conducted qualitative analysis of clinical sessions with rural, drug-using women (N = 20) in a larger prison-based HIV risk reduction intervention in Kentucky during 2012–2014 to examine incarcerated women’s perceptions of the role of their family, community, and intimate relationships in their plans to decrease their substance abuse upon community re-entry. Women stressed the obstacles to receiving support in many of their family and drug-using relationships after community re-entry. Nonetheless, they asserted that changes in their relationships could support their desires to end their substance abuse by setting limits on and using their positive relationships, particularly with their children, to motivate them to change. Interventions to promote incarcerated women’s health behavior changes—including substance abuse—must acknowledge the complex social environments in which they live.
AB - While recent research has stressed the supportive role that family and friends play for incarcerated persons as they re-enter the community, drug-using incarcerated women re-entering the community often have to rely on family, community, and intimate relationships that have played a role in their substance abuse and criminalization. In this study the authors conducted qualitative analysis of clinical sessions with rural, drug-using women (N = 20) in a larger prison-based HIV risk reduction intervention in Kentucky during 2012–2014 to examine incarcerated women’s perceptions of the role of their family, community, and intimate relationships in their plans to decrease their substance abuse upon community re-entry. Women stressed the obstacles to receiving support in many of their family and drug-using relationships after community re-entry. Nonetheless, they asserted that changes in their relationships could support their desires to end their substance abuse by setting limits on and using their positive relationships, particularly with their children, to motivate them to change. Interventions to promote incarcerated women’s health behavior changes—including substance abuse—must acknowledge the complex social environments in which they live.
KW - Abuse
KW - HIV/AIDS
KW - behavior
KW - coping
KW - drug use
KW - mental health
KW - risk factors
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U2 - 10.1080/03630242.2015.1118732
DO - 10.1080/03630242.2015.1118732
M3 - Article
C2 - 26643029
AN - SCOPUS:84958752863
SN - 0363-0242
VL - 56
SP - 843
EP - 858
JO - Women and Health
JF - Women and Health
IS - 7
ER -