Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Children Living With Drug-Abusing Fathers: Comparisons With Children Living With Alcohol-Abusing and Non-Substance-Abusing Fathers.

Fals‐Stewart, William; Kelley, Michelle L.; Fincham, Frank D.; Golden, James; Logsdon, Timothy

doi:10.1037/0893-3200.18.2.319

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“…In the Illinois study, 43% of children did not have significant problems per foster parent report. Similarly, other studies of children of parents who abuse alcohol and other substances while reporting elevated levels of mental health problems also demonstrate individual variations in outcomes (Fals-Stewart, Kelley, Fincham, Golden, & Logsdon, 2004). These findings raise questions about protective factors that might explain the variations in the mental health outcomes of children who experience parental substance abuse.…”

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Mentalization in children exposed to parental methamphetamine abuse: relations to children's mental health and behavioral outcomes

Ostler

Bahar

Jessee

2010

Attachment & Human Development

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This study examined the mentalization capabilities of children exposed to parental methamphetamine abuse in relation to symptom underreporting, mental health, and behavioral outcomes. Twenty-six school-aged children in foster care participated in this study. Mentalization was assessed using the My Family Stories Interview (MFSI), a semi-structured interview in which children recalled family stories about a happy, sad or scary and fun time. An established scale of the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSCC), a self-report measure, provided information on children's symptom underreporting. The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), completed by the children's foster caregivers, assessed children's mental health and behavioral outcomes. Children with higher mentalization were significantly less prone to underreport symptoms. These children had fewer mental health problems and were rated by their foster caregivers as more socially competent. The findings underscore that mentalization could be an important protective factor for children who have experienced parental substance abuse.

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Mentalization in children exposed to parental methamphetamine abuse: relations to children's mental health and behavioral outcomes

Ostler

Bahar

Jessee

2010

Attachment & Human Development

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“…Research further suggested that parents who are substance-involved exhibit different parenting behaviors than those who are not substance-involved, with such differences varying with the characteristics of parents' current drug use (see (20) and (21) for reviews). For example, parents who are substance-involved are more likely to exhibit greater parenting stress (22), decreased attentiveness and engagement with their children (23), more authoritarian parenting (24), and dysfunctional or harsh disciplinary practices (25). Given such parenting practices, it should not be a surprise that children of these parents are three times more likely to be abused and four times more likely to be neglected relative to children of parents who are not substance-involved (26).…”

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The state of evidence-based parenting interventions for parents who are substance-involved

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Approximately 70 million children and adolescents live with at least one parent who abuses or is dependent on alcohol or an illicit substance. Given the negative parenting practices that substance-involved mothers and fathers tend to exhibit as well as the poor outcomes that their children, particularly their young children, experience, evidence-based parenting interventions are an important complement to substance abuse treatments. At this time, there are few studies that compare the efficacy of parenting interventions for these parents, however. Nonetheless, research has begun to examine skillbased and attachment-based parenting interventions for substance-involved families with young children. These parenting interventions should be considered within the context of the neurobiology of substance abuse, which emphasizes the role of dopamine in the reward systems that promote substance use. In the context of these neurobiological connections, parenting interventions that engender repeated intense emotional experiences may stimulate this same reward system and, therefore, may be more efficacious. Attachment-based interventions are particularly promising when such connections are considered. More attention needs to be paid to bringing impactful parenting interventions to substance-involved parents with young children.

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“…Recent studies have shown that 20% to 47% of parents entering treatment for substance abuse live with a child (e.g., Collins et al, 2003;Fals-Stewart et al, 2004a;Stanger et al, 1999).…”

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“…Specifically, these children appear at elevated risk for depression and anxiety (Fals-Stewart et al, 2004a;Stanger et al, 1999), poor self-concept (Drucker and Greco-Vigorito, 2002), externalizing problems (Kelley and Fals-Stewart, 2004), academic difficulties (e.g., Blanchard…”

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Treating paternal drug abuse using Learning Sobriety Together: Effects on adolescents versus children

Kelley¹,

Fals‐Stewart²

2008

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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The focus of this study was whether couples-based treatment for substance abuse had comparable secondary benefits on the internalizing and externalizing behaviors of adolescent versus child siblings living in their homes. Couples took part in a couples-based treatment for substance abuse that combines Behavioral Couples Therapy and individual counseling (i.e., Learning Sobriety Together). During a 17-month assessment period, the relationship between parents' functioning (i.e., fathers' drug use as determined by percent days abstinent and parents' dyadic adjustment) as rated by mothers, fathers, and children's teachers and internalizing behavior (as rated by mothers' only) was stronger for children than their adolescent siblings, particularly in terms of children's externalizing behaviors.Interventions that reduce paternal drug use and improve couple functioning may reduce internalizing and externalizing symptoms for children in their homes; however, adolescents may need more intensive interventions to address internalizing and externalizing symptoms.

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Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Children Living With Drug-Abusing Fathers: Comparisons With Children Living With Alcohol-Abusing and Non-Substance-Abusing Fathers.

Cited by 104 publications

References 47 publications

Mentalization in children exposed to parental methamphetamine abuse: relations to children's mental health and behavioral outcomes

Mentalization in children exposed to parental methamphetamine abuse: relations to children's mental health and behavioral outcomes

The state of evidence-based parenting interventions for parents who are substance-involved

Treating paternal drug abuse using Learning Sobriety Together: Effects on adolescents versus children

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