ABSTRACT

Interventions for problematic alcohol use typically focus on clients as individuals even when these clients continue interacting with their social networks. This paper reports a study about young women's help seeking for problematic alcohol use, examining Alcohol and other Drug outreach service staff perceptions of social network interactions among young women receiving support. We argue that critical realism enables analysis into underlying mechanisms influencing young women's recovery. Pierre Bourdieu's concepts within his theory of capital, and Margaret Archer's concept of conscious reflexivity, assisted in analysing social interactions which helped or hindered recovery. A causal mechanism of legitimacy was associated with social networks that hindered young women's recovery. A sociological approach to problematic alcohol use that combines support for individuals along with their social networks is necessary. More effective promotion of alcohol harms could aid conscious reflexivity, that may help change the habitus of excessive alcohol use.

摘要

对有问题的酒精使用的干预通常将客户作为个人，即使这些客户继续与他们的社交网络互动。本文报告了一项关于年轻女性寻求酒精使用问题帮助的研究，检查酒精和其他药物外展服务人员对接受支持的年轻女性之间社交网络互动的看法。我们认为批判现实主义能够分析影响年轻女性康复的潜在机制。皮埃尔·布迪厄的资本理论中的概念和玛格丽特·阿彻的有意识反思的概念有助于分析有助于或阻碍复苏的社会互动。合法性的因果机制与阻碍年轻女性康复的社交网络有关。有必要对有问题的酒精使用采取一种社会学方法，将支持个人及其社交网络相结合。更有效地宣传酒精危害可以帮助有意识的反思，这可能有助于改变过度饮酒的习惯。