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Contact restoration between mothers, former substance users, and their children in an environment of assisted contact services
Černá, Adéla ; Fidesová, Hana (advisor) ; Šťastná, Lenka (referee)
Background: Substance addicted women face many problems such as stigmatization, discrimination or lesser social support. When addicted woman become a mother, this social-perception usually escalates. It is common that addicted women lose their status as a mother and are deprived of custody of their child, which furthermore leads to estrangement and decrease in mother-child relationship intensity. Mothers effort to regain her status tends to be more complicated in spite of her history, conflicts originating from marriage annulment, concern from childs guardians or lack of trust from the child itself. In situations like this, there are organizations that provide unbiased insight and are able to arrange assisted and monitored parent-child contact. Aims: Intent of this diploma thesis is to explore and describe the process of contact restoration of mothers, that successfully finished their addiction treatment, with their child using services of assisted contacts. Research questions aim to describe mainly the process of mother-child relationship restoration with mentioned services as a provider of environment for their meetings. Secondarily the aim focuses on exploring and describing barriers that might interfere in the process. Methods: Research was accomplished using qualitative methods with attempt of...
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