All in the family: parental substance misuse, harsh parenting, and youth substance misuse among juvenile justice-involved youth.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Research consistently connects parental and youth substance misuse, yet less is known about the mechanisms driving this association among justice-involved youth. We examine whether harsh parenting is an explanatory mechanism for the association between parental substance use and parental mental health and youth substance use disorder in a sample of justice-involved youth.

Methods

Data were drawn from the Northwestern Juvenile Project, a large-scale longitudinal survey of mental health and substance misuse in a representative sample of youth in juvenile detention. Harsh parenting, child maltreatment, youth alcohol and cannabis use disorder, and parental substance misuse and mental health were assessed among 1,825 detained youth (35.95% female) at baseline, three-year

SUBMITTER: Bosk EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10032473 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature