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RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS IN A FAMILY SYSTEM AND WITH PEOPLE OUTSIDE A FAMILY AS AN EXTERNAL MOTIVATOR IN ADDICTED CLIENTS BEFORE ENTERING A RESOCIALIZATION CENTRE

Luba Pavelova

Abstract

Motivation of addicted clients is perceived as a part of the “essential treatment-related perceptions” complex. The level of motivation when entering treatment significantly influences the duration of treatment and its outcome. Therefore, motivation is very important and the knowledge of particular components essentially influences possible interventions and maintenance of abstinence of an addicted person. We also suppose that it can be a predictor of premature dropout. One of cited components is external motivation which is a base for addicted client’s decision to enter treatment. Various life situations may be a motivational factor for seeking treatment. As for addictions, there are often problems with law, money, health, family, employment. These are individual and variable in time. A user perceives them as an external pressure which a treatment has to use in order to maintain a client in the process of change. The paper presents results of a research conducted on a research set of 138 clients before entering 15 resocialization centres in the Slovak Republic in the course of one year. EuropASI and CMRS standardized questionnaires were used as research tools. The research shows the level of motivation and external circumstances which are crucial for entering and maintaining clients in a resocialization process. Among identified external circumstances, there is also high seriousness of problems in relationship problems in a family system and with people outside a family. This finding points to the legitimacy of social work and its methods and justifies the changes in a system of work with an addicted client towards a systemic work with the whole family.

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