Aspects of Family Structures in Alcoholic, Recovered, and Nonalcoholic Families

Preli, Rona; Protinsky, Howard

doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1988.tb00751.x

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“…Earlier findings by Madanes et al (1980) and Preli and Protinsky (1988) on the association between substance use and deviant family hierarchy were replicated with this sample. A strong relationship was found between deviant family hierarchy and substance use, with the percentage of boys with deviant hierarchies increasing with the seriousness of the substance use.…”

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“…Madden and Harbin (1983) compared assaultive and nonassaultive white male adolescents with the Family Hierarchy Test (FHT), and found significantly more reversals for the assaultive group. Preli and Protinsky (1988) used the FHT with 125 families, of which 39 had an adult male family member who was an alcoholic. The families with an alcoholic reported more reversals in hierarchy than families with recovered alcoholics, or nonalcoholic families.…”

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Child psychopathology and deviant family hierarchies

1992

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The association between child psychopathology and reversals in family hierarchies ( Structural family theorists (Minuchin, 1974) have hypothesized that families seeking therapy for a dysfunctional child show evidence of hierarchical reversals (Haley, 1976) in the family structure, where the child has more or equal status or "power" than the parent(s). There have only been a handful of empirical studies which have examined this thesis, which has 1Senior Research Principal,

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Child psychopathology and deviant family hierarchies

1992

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“…A child may take on a parental role at home, but the more dependent role of a child at school. An interesting study on parentification, or role reversal, was conducted by Preli and Protinsky (1988), whereby respondents from chemically dependent, recovered, and nonalcoholic families were asked to select (from a diagram) the relationship that was closest in their families. In the chemically dependent families, 59% selected the mother/child dyad, while the other groups selected that dyad only 7% and less than 1%, respectively.…”

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Family structural issues and chemical dependency: A review of the literature from 1985 to 1991

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1992

The American Journal of Family Therapy

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“…On the other hand, weak parental coalitions may also produce difficulties in family problem solving. This is most likely when a strong parent‐child coalition creates situations in which one parent opposes the other (Gilbert, Christensen, & Margolin, 1984; Haley, 1976; Preli & Protinsky, 1988). Because this produces reversed authority hierarchies and distorted affective attachments within a family, effective problem solving is difficult.…”

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Coalitions and Family Problem Solving with Preadolescents in Referred, At‐Risk, and Comparison Families

1994

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This study tested the hypothesis that the mother-father coalition, parent-child coalitions, and parental warmth expressed toward the child are associated with family problem solving in families with a preadolescent child referred for treatment of behavior problems (n = 30), families with a child at-risk for conduct disorder (n = 68), and a sample of comparison families (n = 90). Referred and at-risk families displayed less effective problem solving. A regression analysis, which controlled for gender of the child, family structure, family income, marital satisfaction, and severity of child problems, showed that strong parental coalitions were linked to low levels of family problem solving in at-risk and referred families. Parent-child coalitions had little apparent impact while parental warmth was highly correlated with better family problem solving. The results may be interpreted as evidence for a tendency for parents in at-risk and referred families to "scapegoat" a preadolescent during family problem-solving sessions. This may undermine progress on family problem solutions and may complicate family-based prevention and treatment programs that use family problem-solving sessions.

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Aspects of Family Structures in Alcoholic, Recovered, and Nonalcoholic Families

Cited by 12 publications

References 8 publications

Child psychopathology and deviant family hierarchies

Child psychopathology and deviant family hierarchies

Family structural issues and chemical dependency: A review of the literature from 1985 to 1991

Coalitions and Family Problem Solving with Preadolescents in Referred, At‐Risk, and Comparison Families

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