{"id":4994,"date":"2025-06-19T22:38:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T22:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/challenges-of-social-workers-in-involving-parents-in-the-intervention-process-of-young-persons-misusing-substances\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T03:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:20:43","slug":"challenges-of-social-workers-in-involving-parents-in-the-intervention-process-of-young-persons-misusing-substances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/challenges-of-social-workers-in-involving-parents-in-the-intervention-process-of-young-persons-misusing-substances\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges of Social Workers in Involving Parents in the Intervention Process of Young Persons Misusing Substances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>Challenges of Social Workers in Involving Parents in the Intervention Process of Young Persons Misusing Substances<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/journals.dut.ac.za\/index.php\/ajims\/article\/view\/1597' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/journals.dut.ac.za\/index.php\/ajims\/article\/view\/1597\/1033' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Substance misuse among young people is a widespread phenomenon and continues to rise. Even though parents are the primary support system of a young person and unavoidably suffer the consequences of problem, they are often excludedin the intervention of a young person misusing substances. This study sought to understand the challenges of social workers in involving parents in the intervention process of young persons misusing substances. The family systems theory was employed as a theoretical base for the study. Thus, qualitative semi-structured face-to-face interviews were conducted with 11 individual participants. Furthermore, non-probability purposive sampling was adopted to recruit a sample of social workers at the 10 service points of the Gauteng Department of Social Development (DSD), in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (CTMM).Five themes emerged from the interviews, namely inadequate information provided by a young person misusing substances, parents\u2019 employment status, nature of the social work intervention process to a young person misusing substance, poor parent\/child relationship, majority age of a young person misusing substances and confidentiality barriers in the professional relationship, and a lack of parents\u2019 insight. To enhance the quality of the social work intervention process to a young person misusing substance, there is a need for parents to be actively involved throughout the recovery process of a young person.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jan Masombuka (University of South Africa, South Africa)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>challenges, intervention, parent, young person, social workers<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: Challenges of Social Workers in Involving Parents in the Intervention Process of Young Persons&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[2153,1438,1439,1440,1442,1441],"class_list":["post-4994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ajims","tag-challenges","tag-intervention","tag-parent","tag-social-workers","tag-young-person","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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