Volume : II, Issue : V, May - 2013

Psychosocial Problems Of The Wives Of Alcoholics

Dr. K. Parthasarathy

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This study was undertaken with a view to understand the socio–demographic characteristics of the respondents and to study about their self–esteem, quality of life and family adjustment. The present study was conducted in slum areas of Tiruchirappalli District at Tamilnadu such as Khaja patti, Khaja Nagar, Bells Ground Ananagar, MGR Nagar and sathiya moorthy Nagar. For this study the researchers selected 22 respondents from each slum areas (n=110) through snow ball sampling method. The data on the subject were collected with the help of structured interview schedule prepared by researchers. The study was descriptive in nature. The study has revealed that majority (51.8 percent) of the respondents have had high level of self esteem, 43.6 percent of the respondents have had low level of quality of life and a sizeable (81.8 percent) of the respondents have had high level of self adjustment, family adjustment, adjustment with husband and children. The wide range of intervention techniques both supportive and reflective in nature such as catharsis, insight development and psycho–education could be used by social workers for motivating, enabling them to deal with denial, enhancing their self esteem, improving the quality of life and reducing their adjustmental problems with family members.  

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Dr. K. Parthasarathy Psychosocial Problems Of The Wives Of Alcoholics International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.II, Issue.V May 2013

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