| Titel: | Feminist Nursing Participatory Research with Black and White Women in Drug Treatment |
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| Autor: | Henderson, DJ |
| Mediengruppe: | --- |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | --- |
| Jahr: | 1994 |
| Band: | --- |
| Heft: | --- |
| Seiten: | 258 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Abstract: | Previous research has indicated the need for all-women drug treatment programs. This feminist nursing participatory research project involved the creation of an all-women's program within a therapeutic drug treatment community and an exploration of the experiences of African American and EuroAmerican women in the program. The project, which was guided by a feminist nursing perspective derived from feminist and nursing theories, employed consciousness raising concerning race and gender within a participatory research methodology. A consciousness raising group, which included black and white women residents, staff, and the researcher, met over an eight month period to plan the women's program. Two primary research methods emerged out of this group: a series of formal, unstructured interviews with five black and two white women, conducted over a six month period, and participant observation of eight weekly women's issues groups. Analysis included self-reflexivity and a process of analytic induction. Three individual women's stories of their drug treatment were told in-depth; the focus was on the women's relationships with men, with other women, with children and with themselves. These same issues were also explored from a group perspective. Women's self relationships were shaped by differing cultural values, by relationships with others, and changed over time in treatment. Women's relationships with other women, particularly their mothers, were of crucial importance and changed in treatment. Competition and lack of trust were barriers to women's relationships with other women. Relationships with men were connected to women's drug abuse, included sexual and physical abuse, and were contradictory. Women's relationships with their children were complex; children provided the impetus for women to enter treatment and to leave prematurely. Women expressed doubts about keeping their children and about having their children in treatment. Differences in each of these issues were found between white and black women. Racial/ethnic and sexual identity were raised as important factors in drug abuse and recovery. Non-traditional therapies such as guided imagery, dance, yoga, massage, hair preparation and cooking were helpful. Theoretical statements toward a feminist nursing theory of women's substance abuse treatment were identified. Implications for practice and further research and the benefits and limitations of participatory research as a methodology for feminist nursing research were discussed. |