| In order to design a preventative social response, the purpose of this work is to examine the intricacies of the social construction of addictive behavior in children who suffer from unresolved or poorly managed complex grief. This examination begins in the Literature Review of Chapter Two by illustrating the importance of one's emotional development as an individual and a member of intimate and social relationships (Brym & Lie, 2007; Cooper, 2005; Siegel, 1999). It then explores the process by which life experience and the emotions about those experiences contribute to the construction of a person's operational belief system by which life choices are made (Greenberg & Paivio, 1997; Griffin, 2002; Pearlman, 2001). The work then focuses on the distinction between normal bereavement and complex grief and how complex grief participates as a powerful factor in determining a person's choices toward addictive behavior (Herman, 1997; Lindy & Wilson, 2001; Nader, 2001). Chapter Two concludes with a working definition for socially constructed addictive behavior as a progressive emotional entropy for the individual, family, and society (Carnes, 1992, 1993; Dayton, 2000; Siegel, 2003).;Chapter Three defines the hermeneutic dialectic process as it applies to the interfacing of the perspective of the four fields of thought (Griffin, 2002; Rogers, 1994; Wood, 2005). The dialectic process style of hermeneutics is used for both the interpretation of literature and for developing and illustrating the usage of a social hermeneutic (Stringer, 1999). Chapter Four assimilates the resulting process that depicts the progressive individual and social disorder formed in the entanglement of grief and addictive behavior. The resulting diagram introduces an emotionally intelligent treatment plan within servant-led communities of practice that could possibly address the developing social dilemma (Benard, 2004; Ungar, 2004; Siegel, 2007, 2010). Then based on the research formulated from the interface of the four fields of thought, Chapter Five presents three reasons for my selection of servant-leadership as the most effective solution to the social dilemma generated by the chaotic forces of addiction. It also discusses the possible emergence and application of a central learning network that can build or collect the ideas, solutions, and results that caregivers discover from diverse locations and environments. |
