The Extent of Professional Responses to the Psychosocial Needs of Older Adults with Alcohol Behaviour in Violent Conflict situations in Nigeria
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2014-09
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Ejikeme, T.U
Ejikeme, G.G
Karuri, G.S
Badru, F.A
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Department of Sociology, University of Jos, Nigeria
Abstract
This paper investigates the alcohol behaviour and stress coping strategies of older adults confronted with a combination of age-related problems and psychosocial needs in violent conflict situations in Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study are to find out (1) if there are psychosocial needs and problems of older persons that are internally displaced and dislocated as victims of violent religious and ethnic crises in the country that could lead em to use alcohol or increase its consumption for coping with stress; (2) e appropriateness and effectiveness of the coping responses of distressed
older adults as victims of stressful religious and ethnic conflicts; (3) the tent of the involvement of professional counsellors, social gerontologists, medical social workers and clinical psychologists in understanding the alcohol behaviour and psychosocial needs of older victims of stressful conflict situations as traumatic life events and helping them to make better d more successful responses to the challenges of these events in Nigeria. is study used a desk-based, exploratory literature search as its design in which there is the review of literature on the alcohol behaviour of older adults as they try to cope with their age-related problems and psychosocial challenges in violent conflict situations m NIgena. The major result suggests that if appropriate and successful professlonal responses are not made to meet the psycho-social needs of older victims of stressful conflict situations, they will abuse alcohol/drugs and use other maladaptive responses to their stressful life events. The paper concludes that counsellors, social gerontologists, psychologists, social workers, and professional health care givers care and educate older adults that use and abuse
drugs as coping strategies in conflict situations because substance abuse can occur with HIV infection, depression, dementia and other .forms of emotional mental illness and how to prevent co-occurring disorders.
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Violent Conflict Situations , Use of Alcohol , Older Adults , Psychosocial Needs , Nigeria , Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Education
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Ejikeme, T.U., Ejikeme, G.G., Karuri, G.S.,Badru, F.A (2014). 'The Extent of Professional Responses to the Psychosocial Needs of Older Adults with Alcohol Beaviour in Violent Conflict Situations in Nigeria' Jos Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 7. No. 1: 113-136and