Sandra Kuntsche
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1741041 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sandra Kuntsche |
| NOMBRES | Sandra |
| APELLIDO | Kuntsche |
| FIRMA | KUNTSCHE S |
| AFILIACIONES | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8191-0502 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Examining representations of and responses to children affected by parental alcohol consumption in Australian health and social policy
INTRODUCTION: Australian policy texts articulate priorities aimed at addressing policy 'problems'. Over two decades of research in Australia and internationally identifies, as a problem, ways in which children may be affected by their parents' alcohol consumption. This raises the question of how this problem is represented in Australian policy. METHODS: The poststructuralist WPR approach was applied to an analysis of nine Australian national heal…
Family-Inclusive and Relational Approaches to Trauma Recovery
Close interpersonal relationships represent both a key context for the genesis of complex trauma and a positive modifiable factor in recovery following trauma exposure. Furthermore, symptoms of individual trauma affect the family system and partners, supporting the need for systemic approaches in trauma recovery. This review sought to systematically identify and synthesise current approaches to involving the family or relational partners in traum…
Hegemonic femininity, motherhood, and alcohol in Australia
Ideals around femininity influence women's health behaviours, particularly for mothers facing hegemonic and gender normative pressures. This relationship becomes more complex when it comes to alcohol, where commercial, moral, health and pleasure-based discourses intersect. We examine how alcohol use is negotiated by employed mothers in the context of intensive motherhood, hegemonic femininity, neoliberal and postfeminist ideals. Drawing on interv…
Accounts of children’s experiences of living with a heavy-drinking parent
Background Children can be negatively affected by their parents’ alcohol consumption practices, with implications for their physical and mental wellbeing. Here, we analyze meaning-making practices and interpretive frameworks used in accounts of children’s experiences of living with a ‘heavy-drinking’ parent in Australia.Methods We use data gathered from 21 interviews with caregivers of children and adults reflecting on their childhood. Framed by …
‘ We were all stuffed ’
Background During COVID-19 lockdowns, women and parents were more likely to increase their alcohol use. Working mothers in particular faced additional stressors and roles that may have influenced how they drank. In this study, we explored how the experiences of Australian lockdowns affected drinking practices among a sample of working mothers.Methods Between February and June 2022, we conducted 22 semi-structured interviews with working mothers a…
The extent and diversity of harm from the drinking of unknown others in Australia
Exploring Socio‐Demographic Characteristics of Caregivers Who Indicated a Child Was Substantially Affected by Others' Drinking in Australia
Increasing Alcohol Pharmacotherapy Prescribing Rates in Australia
T.N. has received speaking honoraria from Camurus. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
Are Heavier drinkers’ Views on Situational Drinking Norms Affected by Recent Experience of Harm from others’ Drinking
OBJECTIVE: The relation is investigated between situational drinking norms which accept heavier drinking and the experience of harm from others' drinking. How does the experience of such harm relate to the acceptance of heavier drinking in drinking situations? METHODS: = 2,574) were asked what level of drinking is acceptable in 11 social situations, including 3 "wet" situations where drinking is generally acceptable. Besides their own drinking pa…
A qualitative analysis investigating drinking practices and meanings among a sample of Australian working mothers
Background: Despite recent increases in alcohol use among Western mid-life women, less is known about working mothers and how their competing social roles and responsibilities might influence their alcohol use. Our study unpacks how the experience of being a working mother creates particular drinking practices and meanings, and how these are influenced by cultural and societal factors. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted among 22 A…
Uncorking the ‘wine mum’
By juxtaposing women's stories with 'wine mum' stereotypes, and the broader feminisation of drinking, we highlight how women's drinking practices are influenced not only by static identities, but the complex interplay between gender, a myriad of fluid social categories, and day-to-day life. We suggest that attending to context and women's everyday experiences is crucial for generating a nuanced understanding of drinking beyond women's traditional…
Substance misuse by birth parents
Concerns that children in OOHC with a history of parental substance misuse may be more affected with regards to early-stage physical development, and later verbal cognitive development than those without this history in OOHC, may not be justified
Strategies to support midlife women to reduce their alcohol consumption
Alcohol consumption is causally associated with long-term health-related consequences, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease, and short-term harms, such as accidents and injuries. Alcohol consumption has increased among midlife women (aged 40–65) over the last two decades in high-income countries. This study aimed to centre women’s voices by using co-design methodologies to investigate what women identify as strategies that could assist them …
A gender-focused multilevel analysis of how country, regional and individual level factors relate to harm from others’ drinking
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine how gender, age and education, regional prevalence of male and female risky drinking and country-level economic gender equality are associated with harms from other people's drinking. METHODS: 24,823 adults in ten countries were surveyed about harms from drinking by people they know and strangers. Country-level economic gender equality and regional prevalence of risky drinking along with age and ge…
‘I’m not managing it; it’s managing me’
The coronavirus pandemic has brought significant changes to people’s lives. Research indicates parents and carers faced particular challenges and were one of the few groups reported in survey data to increase their alcohol consumption during the pandemic. Drawing on interviews with 30 Australian parents and carers of young children, and using a family practices approach, we explore how participants considered their alcohol practices as entangled …
A multi-country analysis of informal caregiving due to others’ drinking
The burden of caring for drinkers is seldom articulated as a social concern, or integrated in service planning or alcohol policy. This study aims to examine prevalence and predictors of informal caregiving due to others' drinking cross-nationally by surveying 20,728 respondents (18-64 years) in 11 countries. The outcome variable was respondent-reported informal caregiving due to others' drinking, analysed by socio-demographic factors and drinking…
Improving measurement of harms from others' drinking
The who and what of women's drinking
‘They're like little police’
What makes up wine o'clock? Understanding social practices involved in alcohol use among women aged 40–65 years in Australia
Double shifts, double trouble
Frames and benefits of alcohol-related harm to others research
To understand alcohol’s harm to others, research is needed measuring and analysing harms like family violence and traffic injuries which are managed in response systems, as well as harms which occur in the general population, and economic costs for the society as a whole. Findings in these different study frames should be compared substantively to point to opportunities for intervention and to response system reforms. Population surveys of alcoho…
Beverage‐specific situational norms
Purchasing, consumption, demographic and socioeconomic variables associated with shifts in alcohol consumption during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
Understanding local government responses to alcohol‐related harm
Development and Validation of the Drinking Motive Questionnaire Revised Short Form (DMQ–R SF)
A short form of the Drinking Motive Questionnaire Revised (DMQ–R; Cooper, 1994 Cooper , M. L. ( 1994 ). Motivations for alcohol use among adolescents: Development and validation of a four-factor-model . Psychological Assessment , 6 , 117 – 128 .[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) was developed, using different item selection strategies based on a national representative sample of 5,617 12- to 18-year-old students in Switzerland. To confirm the concurr…
Social roles and alcohol consumption
Binge drinking
OBJECTIVE: Binge drinking (also called heavy episodic drinking, risky single-occasion drinking etc.) is a major public health problem. This paper provides an overview of recently published evidence concerning the definition and measurement, prevalence rates, health impact, demographic and psychosocial correlates of, and interventions for, binge drinking. DESIGN: Narrative review. RESULTS: Mostly occurring among young people at weekends, binge dri…
Children’s experience of physical harms and exposure to family violence from others’ drinking in nine societies
One in 25 caregivers with children report physical or family violence harms to children because of others' drinking. The adjusted odds of harm are significantly greater (more than four-fold) in households with a heavy or harmful drinker, with men most likely to be defined as this drinker in the household
Do gender differences in the relationship between living with children and alcohol consumption vary by societal gender inequality
Frames and benefits of alcohol-related harm to others research
To understand alcohol’s harm to others, research is needed measuring and analysing harms like family violence and traffic injuries which are managed in response systems, as well as harms which occur in the general population, and economic costs for the society as a whole. Findings in these different study frames should be compared substantively to point to opportunities for intervention and to response system reforms. Population surveys of alcoho…
Beverage‐specific situational norms
Purchasing, consumption, demographic and socioeconomic variables associated with shifts in alcohol consumption during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
Understanding local government responses to alcohol‐related harm
A gender-focused multilevel analysis of how country, regional and individual level factors relate to harm from others’ drinking
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine how gender, age and education, regional prevalence of male and female risky drinking and country-level economic gender equality are associated with harms from other people's drinking. METHODS: 24,823 adults in ten countries were surveyed about harms from drinking by people they know and strangers. Country-level economic gender equality and regional prevalence of risky drinking along with age and ge…
‘I’m not managing it; it’s managing me’
The coronavirus pandemic has brought significant changes to people’s lives. Research indicates parents and carers faced particular challenges and were one of the few groups reported in survey data to increase their alcohol consumption during the pandemic. Drawing on interviews with 30 Australian parents and carers of young children, and using a family practices approach, we explore how participants considered their alcohol practices as entangled …
A multi-country analysis of informal caregiving due to others’ drinking
The burden of caring for drinkers is seldom articulated as a social concern, or integrated in service planning or alcohol policy. This study aims to examine prevalence and predictors of informal caregiving due to others' drinking cross-nationally by surveying 20,728 respondents (18-64 years) in 11 countries. The outcome variable was respondent-reported informal caregiving due to others' drinking, analysed by socio-demographic factors and drinking…
Improving measurement of harms from others' drinking
The who and what of women's drinking
‘They're like little police’
What makes up wine o'clock? Understanding social practices involved in alcohol use among women aged 40–65 years in Australia
Double shifts, double trouble
Strategies to support midlife women to reduce their alcohol consumption
Alcohol consumption is causally associated with long-term health-related consequences, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease, and short-term harms, such as accidents and injuries. Alcohol consumption has increased among midlife women (aged 40–65) over the last two decades in high-income countries. This study aimed to centre women’s voices by using co-design methodologies to investigate what women identify as strategies that could assist them …
Are Heavier drinkers’ Views on Situational Drinking Norms Affected by Recent Experience of Harm from others’ Drinking
OBJECTIVE: The relation is investigated between situational drinking norms which accept heavier drinking and the experience of harm from others' drinking. How does the experience of such harm relate to the acceptance of heavier drinking in drinking situations? METHODS: = 2,574) were asked what level of drinking is acceptable in 11 social situations, including 3 "wet" situations where drinking is generally acceptable. Besides their own drinking pa…
A qualitative analysis investigating drinking practices and meanings among a sample of Australian working mothers
Background: Despite recent increases in alcohol use among Western mid-life women, less is known about working mothers and how their competing social roles and responsibilities might influence their alcohol use. Our study unpacks how the experience of being a working mother creates particular drinking practices and meanings, and how these are influenced by cultural and societal factors. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted among 22 A…
Uncorking the ‘wine mum’
By juxtaposing women's stories with 'wine mum' stereotypes, and the broader feminisation of drinking, we highlight how women's drinking practices are influenced not only by static identities, but the complex interplay between gender, a myriad of fluid social categories, and day-to-day life. We suggest that attending to context and women's everyday experiences is crucial for generating a nuanced understanding of drinking beyond women's traditional…
Substance misuse by birth parents
Concerns that children in OOHC with a history of parental substance misuse may be more affected with regards to early-stage physical development, and later verbal cognitive development than those without this history in OOHC, may not be justified
Accounts of children’s experiences of living with a heavy-drinking parent
Background Children can be negatively affected by their parents’ alcohol consumption practices, with implications for their physical and mental wellbeing. Here, we analyze meaning-making practices and interpretive frameworks used in accounts of children’s experiences of living with a ‘heavy-drinking’ parent in Australia.Methods We use data gathered from 21 interviews with caregivers of children and adults reflecting on their childhood. Framed by …
‘ We were all stuffed ’
Background During COVID-19 lockdowns, women and parents were more likely to increase their alcohol use. Working mothers in particular faced additional stressors and roles that may have influenced how they drank. In this study, we explored how the experiences of Australian lockdowns affected drinking practices among a sample of working mothers.Methods Between February and June 2022, we conducted 22 semi-structured interviews with working mothers a…
The extent and diversity of harm from the drinking of unknown others in Australia
Psychology (25 obras) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (24 obras) · Medicine (22 obras) · Environmental health (17 obras) · Social Psychology (15 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (12 obras) · Alcohol (11 obras) · Alcohol consumption (10 obras) · Harm (7 obras)