Impact of Social Work Intervention on Self-esteem

A Study on Families with Alcohol Dependence

Abstract

Alcoholism is a chronic illness, a social menace which is an alarming threat to the nation. It is also known as a disease of the entire family because of its calamitous, devastating consequences on the family. Alcoholism affects the homeostasis of the family by impeding its dynamics, starting from the decision-making to role functioning, communication, cohesion and support system of the family which finally leave an imprint on the self-esteem of the family members. The present paper aims to study the impact of social work intervention on the self-esteem of families with alcohol dependence. This was an intervention study with a pre-post experimental research design. Twenty family members who attended the Out-patient department of the Institute of Psychiatry, Kolkata were selected for the study, following the inclusion and exclusion criteria using criteria-based purposive sampling method. After assessing the family members with Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, a social work intervention package was provided for a period of 6 months, followed by post-assessment with the same parameter. Descriptive Statistics and Wilcoxon Signed-rank test were used for statistical analysis. The study concludes with the findings that social work intervention package can significantly improve the self-esteem of the families of persons with alcohol dependence.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46700/asssr/2023/v5/i1/223399