The social adjustment activities of adolescent and young adult drug abusers after rehabilitation

• Main Authors: Guerrero, Patrick G., Hilado, Christina, Sordo, Salvador
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1992
• Subjects: Social adjustment; Drug abuse > Treatment; Young adults; Adolescents; Rehabilitation
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/16188
• Institution: De La Salle University

The main objective of the study was to look into the life histories of rehabilitated adolescent and young adult drug abusers who were adjusting back to their families, peer group, and school/work. This study specifically focused on the situations that these individuals faced after their rehabilitation , the problems that they encountered, the ways in which they resolved these problems, and their aspirations and future goals. The study used twenty adolescent and young adults who belonged to the sixteen to twenty four age group.The exploratory research design according to the life histories of these twenty individuals was employed. This study has tables which show the frequency count of all of the variables in this study.Most of the subjects were influenced to drug use by their respective group of friends. Most of them also started taking drugs at a very young age. All of them underwent either institutional or non-institutional rehabilitation for their drug use. Many of the respondents did not have a hard time adjusting to both their family and peer group although there were a very few cases wherein rejection from peers was felt.The family still proves to be the social institution which helps in the adjustment of these individuals compared to peer group and school/work settings. The family played a significant role in facilitating the adjustment of these individuals who underwent rehabilitation and were resocializing themselves back to their respective families, peer group, and school/work.