Mayes Linda C
Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Infant Ment Health J. 2023 Mar;44(2):284-289. doi: 10.1002/imhj.22052. Epub 2023 Mar 14.
Nancy Suchman and the colleagues she influenced have produced ground-breaking and attitude-challenging work in understanding how parenting and substance use come together. Dr Suchman and her colleagues make the claim that there is nothing about a substance-use disorder that precludes effective and sensitive caring for children especially with interventions that focus on the parent-child relationship. Suchman's legacy is to highlight how substance use as an illness pulls individuals away from important, caring relationships and limits their giving themselves to those relationships. Restoring the salience of caring relationships and of the individual's ability to care may be as impactful on their substance use as a strict focus on the reduction of drug use and achieving abstinence.
南希·萨克曼和受她影响的同事们在理解养育子女与物质使用如何相互关联方面开展了开创性且极具挑战性的工作。萨克曼博士及其同事认为，物质使用障碍并不妨碍对孩子进行有效且体贴入微的照料，尤其是通过专注于亲子关系的干预措施。萨克曼的贡献在于强调物质使用作为一种疾病如何使个体远离重要的关爱关系，并限制他们全身心投入这些关系。恢复关爱关系的重要性以及个体的关爱能力，对于他们的物质使用可能与严格专注于减少药物使用及实现戒除同样具有影响力。
