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RUNNING HEAD: Build a Quantitative Proposal NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Student: Andrea Bates THIS FORM MUST BE COMPLETELY FILLED IN Follow these procedures: If requested by your instructor, please include an assignment cover sheet. This will become the first page of your assignment. In addition, your assignment header should include your last name, first initial, course code, dash, and assignment number. This should be left justified, with the page number right justified. For example: BatesAMFT7103-9 1 Save a copy of your assignments: You may need to re-submit an assignment at your instructor’s request. Make sure you save your files in accessible location. Academic integrity: All work submitted in each course must be your own original work. This includes all assignments, exams, term papers, and other projects required by your instructor . Knowingly submitting another person’s work as your own, without properly citing the source of the work, is considered plagiarism. This will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course. It may also result in academic dismissal from the University. Dr. Lettenberger-Klein Research Methods in MFT Build a Quantitative Proposal Faculty Use Only 1

RUNNING HEAD: Build a Quantitative Proposal Build a Quantitative Proposal Statement of Problem The problem is that substance abuse (SUD, substance use disorder) can have negative consequences for the family system; “family members may experience feelings of abandonment, anxiety, fear, anger, concern, embarrassment, or guilt; they may wish to ignore or cut ties with the person abusing substances” (National Center for Biotechnology Information, 2018. P.2.). Specifically, it is affecting our adolescents and youth across the nation. Children who experience substance abuse could be more susceptible to using substances which continues the cycle of exposure of substance abuse into our future. “It is estimated that more than eight million children younger than age 18 live with at least one adult who has a SUD that is a rate of more than one in 10 children. Most of these children are younger than age 5. The studies of families with SUDs reveal patterns that significantly influence child development and the likelihood that a child will struggle with emotional, behavioral, or substance use problems” (Byrne, 2013). How our family system works could be a large factor in substance use disorder becomes a factor in our children’s lives. This can then lead to a repeated cycle into adulthood due to the exposure to substance abuse as a child. Trying to understand if substance use disorder is more prone to happen to individuals who are exposed to substance abuse in childhood and those who are not is an important attribute towards this problem. ‘Offspring of parents with SUD are specifically at increased risk due not only to their family history and presumed genetic liability but also from the risk associated with exposure to parental SUD. For instance, an extant literature has validated social learning theory by showing that children model their behavior on people they are close to, and in the context of 2

RUNNING HEAD: Build a Quantitative Proposal SUD, data suggests that exposure to parental substance use predicts increased offspring substance use’ (Yule, 2013. Pg. 460). If there are increased amounts of children who are exposed to substance use then more people could possibly be at risk to suffer from substance abuse disorder in new family dynamics like becoming a husband, wife, or another type of figure in the family system that interacts with family members. This is important and relevant to the MFT field because we, as therapists, help family’s structure and gain clarity within their lives with their own solutions. It is important for therapists to understand the possibilities of substance use disorder and how it affects the systemic family structure. “Parental substance use is a major risk factor for child development, heightening the risk of drug problems in adolescence and young adulthood, and exposing offspring to several types of traumatic events” (Cristofalo, 2016). Purpose The purpose of this study is to differentiate how substance use abuse affects adults who were exposed to substance abuse in childhood and adults with substance use abuse who were not exposed to parents with a substance use disorder. These two groups will be compared on four dependent variables: family economics, family relationship with parents, addictive personality traits, and mental health status. “Since SUD often develops in adolescence, identification of children at particularly high risk for SUD can permit the evaluation of potentially treatable disorders that appear in childhood many years before the SUD” (Wilens, 2002, pg. 42). The purpose of this study could help therapists identify triggers of substance use disorder and help understand if it is engaged with mental health status than substance abuse seen in childhood. 3

RUNNING HEAD: Build a Quantitative Proposal Also, the purpose will be to see how economic status of the family and addictive personality traits of the substance abuser effects their substance issues. These are all important factors to understand through therapeutic process and progression towards getting away from substance abuse. Different variables will help us understand more about substance abuse and what triggers it and why. Sometimes to solve a problem we must first process the unique information that is given to us to determine a solution for unique individuals. Some individuals may have the same types of qualities such as substance abuse in their childhood or none but not all of them have the other contributing factors, so this purpose of the problem is to try to fulfil that information. Surveys and interviews being distributed via the internet could be a helpful tool towards collecting data from participants in this study. Distribution could be selected through social media or going to behavioral clinics for substance abuse such as rehabilitation centers. Web- based interviews could also be given if the participants are more comfortable with that and could bring a broader range of participants. Asking questions that do involve substance abuse can make some people uncomfortable, but the informed consent form could make the participants feel more at ease. The internet can also help people feel anonymous by only answering their gender, age, etc. Field experiments could be more helpful for the study because I can be in the real-world environment of the individuals Using the internet video interviewing techniques could be an option that could work as well for this. The independent variables are SUD with childhood exposure to SUD and SUD individuals without childhood SUD exposure. The dependent variables are the unique differences of the SUD individuals listed above. Communication and how the relationship with the family members could help broaden the spectrum of the variables. For example, the surveys could ask questions based on the quality of relationships between substance abusers and their parents or their current family members their substance use is 4

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