"Essential for all libraries, this important contribution to the understanding of a significant social problem should become a classic." -- D.J. Hanson of SUNY College at Potsdam "For researchers, this is a detailed review of existing literature and a great new body of data and analysis to complement and extend knowledge in the field...It gives practitioners much needed information to help address the cognitive and behavioural effects on children of alcoholics, and how working on family strengthening and family harmony can build the resistance to reduce likelihood of problem drinking later in life." -- Journal of Substance Misuse
Growing Up with Parents with Drinking Problems and Establishing an Adult Life: Four Illustrations What Was Already Known: A Review of Previous Research Doing Research on the Subject: The Design of the Present Study Recollections of Growing Up with Parents with Drinking Problems - Results I The Children of Problem Drinking Parents as Young Adults - Results II Explanations for Differences in Adulthood Adjustment - Results III How Has Our Understanding Advanced? Summary and Integration Implications for Intervention, Service Development and Prevention