Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is the first edition of a book on a topic that is seldom analyzed in detail, yet of utmost importance given its prevalence in our society. This book is divided into 2 parts, the first focusing on understanding substance abuse and its implications for parenting, and the second part dealing with risk assessment and intervention. As per the authors, “Both addiction and parenthood are conditions and states of being that impact many others—family, friends, children and bring profound transformative changes in a person's life, sometimes for the worse in both instances.” We have long known that substance abuse is an addictive behavior, and that the stress of parenting can be a trigger for relapse or continuing use. The authors report studies that mothers with a history of cocaine use have less emotional engagement and responsiveness to their infants and toddlers. Furthermore, although genetics play an important role, the authors feel that environmental influences may be even stronger. Chapter 3 is devoted to an exploration of impulsivity as the main factor leading to substance abuse. “Substance abuse itself is often conceptualized as an impulsive behavior, according to Dewitt, 2008. Factors influencing impulsive behavior include the need to pursue opportunities for reward, negative effect, and lack of urge inhibition and cognitive resource depletion.” In the sixth chapter, the authors review the impact of the substance abuse on mother's ability to care for their infants. According to the authors, “The infants are often neglected and develop representations of the outside world as unavailable and unsoothing.” In chapter 10, the authors review evidence that, “older children who experience both prenatal or postnatal exposure to parental addiction are at risk for a range of emotional, academic, and developmental problems. This has been recorded on a number of different cognitive, social, and academic scales.” Mothers who abuse drugs during pregnancy often question themselves on their ability to be able to keep their babies properly nourished, to satisfy their emotional needs and learn to love and respect themselves enough to see themselves as adequate and loving mothers. The mainstay of intervention is an excellent collaboration with drug counselors. This is especially important in cases where there is neonatal drug withdrawal. Chapter 16 details the psychoanalytic Attachment-Oriented Group Intervention for Substance-Abusing Mothers and their Infants. This type of intervention has as its main goal to reduce the possibility of the mothers transmitting their traumatic past into negative interactions with their infants. This is provided in small group therapy sessions beginning in late pregnancy and lasting for 6 months. This technique allows the mother to regard the group therapy as her first attachment object, thereby enhancing her ability to attach with the baby when it's born. There is widespread acceptance of the definition of recovery. The Parent Child Assistance program was developed at the University of Washington, Seattle. Its prime goal is to help mothers obtain treatment, stay in recovery, and assure their children a stable home environment. The definition of recovery is the voluntarily maintained lifestyle with sobriety, personal health, and being an active member of society. In summary, Nancy E. Suchman, Marjukka Pajulo, and Linda C. Mayes have edited this collection of chapters from various authors. It offers a comprehensive review of multiple issues related to parenting and substance abuse.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".