Snoek Anke, Dijkstra Boukje A G, Markus Wiebren, Van der Meer Margreet, De Wert Guido, Horstkötter Dorothee
Department of Health, Ethics and Society, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Nijmegen Institute for Scientist-Practitioners in Addiction (NISPA), Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Front Psychol. 2021 Jul 2;12:656320. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.656320. eCollection 2021.
Parental alcohol dependency is associated with risks for the well-being of their children. However, guiding these families to support is often complicated. We interviewed 10 alcohol dependent parents, and held 3 focus group interviews with child welfare social workers, and alcohol and other drug workers. We identified a reluctance to act among professional and non-professional bystanders. Family members, neighbours, teachers, and general practitioners are often aware of parental drinking problems, but are reluctant to discuss them with the parents or to alert services designed to support families. The aim of this paper is to share the experiences of parents and show that parents appreciate interventions if done in a certain manner. Although parents were reluctant to discuss their drinking problem, they considered these problems as symptoms of underlying severe distress. They were highly motivated to get help for these underlying problems and wondered why they were not questioned about their distress by those around them. The silence of others reinforced pre-existing feelings of worthlessness and hopelessness. In this paper we analyse other's hesitation to intervene as a form of the bystander effect, and make suggestions on how this bystander effect can be overcome.
父母酒精依赖与子女的幸福风险相关。然而，引导这些家庭获得支持往往很复杂。我们采访了10位酒精依赖父母，并与儿童福利社会工作者、酒精及其他药物问题工作者进行了3次焦点小组访谈。我们发现专业和非专业旁观者都不愿采取行动。家庭成员、邻居、教师和全科医生通常都意识到父母的饮酒问题，但不愿与父母讨论这些问题，也不愿向旨在支持家庭的服务机构通报情况。本文的目的是分享父母的经历，并表明如果以某种方式进行干预，父母会感激。尽管父母不愿讨论他们的饮酒问题，但他们认为这些问题是潜在严重困扰的症状。他们非常愿意为这些潜在问题寻求帮助，并奇怪为什么周围的人没有询问他们的困扰。他人的沉默强化了他们原有的无价值感和绝望感。在本文中，我们将分析他人不愿干预这种旁观者效应的形式，并就如何克服这种旁观者效应提出建议。
