Determination of Difficulties in the Rehabilitation Practices on Drug User Probationers and Probation Officers- Example of Izmir City
Bildiriler > Özet Bildiri · 2018
Yazarlar: İnci Derya YÜCEL, Görkem YARARBAŞ
3rd Regional The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists Meeting, Drug Abuse&Crime Symposium, Türkiye, Nevşehir, Uluslararası, Sözlü Sunum, Özet Bildiri, 2018-2018, ss 1-1
Özet
<p>Background & Objectives:</p><p>In accordance with Article:191 of the Turkish Penal Code, it is a criminal offense to buy, accept or hold drugs or stimulants to use drugs. As an alternative to criminal sanction, a treatment and probation measure is prescribed for drug users. Probation staff(probation experts/officers) has difficulties in areas: job stress, job satisfaction, personal accomplishment, communication skills with drug user probationers. Burnout is a common psychological syndrome in “helping” professions such as probation staff and it is a result of long-term stress which includes emotional burnout, depersonalization and personal accomplishment reduction. It can affect less performance of probation staff in rehabilitation programmes, so it is needed to develop new models or upgrade them which probation staff can use. On the other hand drug user probationers(offenders under supervision of probation sentence) need innovative rehabilitation models due to their variable characteristics and needs. The purpose of this study is to determine the difficulties experienced by probation staff and probationers with substance use disorder (SUD) during rehabilitation in probation service at the same time, thus to recommend to make the program better functioning.</p><p><br></p><p>Methods:</p><p>“Survey of Evaluating Probation Service for Probationers”, “Addiction Profile Index(API)”, “Multidimensional Scale of Perceived</p><p>Social Support” and “Personal Information Form” will be applied to 200 drug user probationers and “Job Stress Scale”, “Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale”, “Maslach Burnout Inventory(MBI)”, “Inventory of Communication Skills”, “Survey of Evaluating Drug User Probationers for Probation Staff” will be applied to 70 probation staff in Izmir Probation Directorate. For statistical analysis, SPSS V24 program will be used.</p><p><br></p><p>Results & Conclusion:</p><p>It is aimed that the evaluating drug user probationers’ features of using drug and related to probation</p><p>(perceived self-development, satisfaction of probation service) will contribute to determine needs for rehabilitation models in probation services, consequently it can contribute to improve current rehabilitation models or/and develop innovative methodologies, researches in relevant studies in the future and also the evaluating probation staff's levels of job satisfaction, emotional burnout, depersonalization, perceived individual job success and communication skills will contribute to understand how to structure new models of trainings for professions in probation staff in the future.</p><p><br></p><p>Keywords: probation, substance use disorder, rehabilitation</p><p><br></p>