PowerPoint-presentatie

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Website for Children of Parents with Alcohol
Problems Barbara Conijn Heleen
Riper Trimbos-institute, Netherlands Institute of
Mental Health and Addiction
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overview of presentation Drankjewel.nl

• explaining drankjewel.nl
• advisory committee
• target group
• content
• the web site
• pilot implementation

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Drankjewel.nl

• Prevention Programme Trimbos-institute
• Heleen Riper
• Barbara Conijn
• financed by the Ministry of Health, Welfare
  Sports

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Advisory Commission

• Netherlands Institute for Health Promotion and
  Disease Prevention (NIGZ)
• Brijder Foundation, regional Dutch institute for
  addiction
• de Grift, regional Dutch institute for addiction
• TACTUS, regional Dutch institute for addiction
• Parnassia, regional Dutch institute for addiction
• National Support Centre for Prevention (T-i)
• Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare (NIZW)
  

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Target group Drankjewel.nl

• Children of parents with alcohol problems

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Characteristics of families with a problem
drinking parent

• alcohol problems are at the core of family life
• conducting tasks for missing parent
• masking the problems protecting the drinking
  parent
• unpredictable social life
• lack of proper physical care
• emotional neglect
• aggression
• sexual harassment

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Youth Problems

• severe psychological complaints
• depression
• eating disorders
• behavioural disorders
• delinquency
• increased risks for alcohol problems (starting
  during adolescence)
• sleeping disorders and bed wetting
• decreased school performance
• physical complaints
• causes genetic disposition, personal traits
  environment
• but protective factors

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Problems for adults when compared with adults
from non-problem drinking families

• increased risk for problem drinking
• difficulties with relationships intimacy
• weak communication skills
• low self-esteem
• more often a partner with problem drinking
  behaviour

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Target group

• 1 out of 12 adults in the Netherlands has (or
  had) a parent with an alcohol problem (Nemesis,
  1997)
• ? approximately 300.000 children
• in 2 out of 3 cases father
• in 1 out of 3 cases mother
• sometimes both parents

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Why Drankjewel.nl?

• limited availability of low threshold
  interventions for COAPs
• the need for information, advice anonymity for
  children
• Internet is an adequate medium to offer low
  threshold interventions
• Internet is able to access hidden target
  populations
• Internet access 95 of adolescents 70 of the
  general population

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What does Drankjewel.nl offer?

• information advice
• recognition
• contact forum, e-mail and chat service
• design
• language
• content

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youth
adults
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Stories of others
Facts about COAPs
All about alcohol use
How are you doing?
What to do?
- Links - FAQs - Reading tips
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What to do? 1.You cant save your parents 2.Talk
about it 3. Seek information 4. Do things you
like 5. Write down your feelings 6. Do you worry
about your siblings?
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Looking back
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Looking back 1. Your childhood 2. What was it
like back than? 3. A drinking mother of father 4.
What do children need? 5. How do children react
to alcohol problems at home?
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Pilot Implementation

• May - October 2003
• Interactive functionality's
• user forum (Tactus NIGZ)
• Question Answer (NIGZ de Grift)
• chat with a professional (Jellinek)
• process evaluation, content management
  maintenance (Trimbos-institute)

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User forum
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Question Answer (e-mail)
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Thank you for your attention.