Resilient offspring of alcoholics: a longitudinal study from birth to age 18.

Werner, Emmy Ε.

doi:10.15288/jsa.1986.47.34

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“…When Werner (1986) studied resilient children who had substance abusing parents, they found the following comon factors in their lives: they had a positive temparement that activated their primary caregiver; they had at least average intelligence; they possessed an ambition to create a better life than their parents; they had a good self-image; they had a belief in their own capacity; and they did not have a serious illness. In other studies, factors that influence the development of positive parenting skills for resilient children include the presence of a sensitive mother, the development of social competence, and the establishment of satisfactory love-relationships (Conger, Schofield, Neppl, & Merrick, 2013; Raby, Steele, Carlson, & Sroufe, 2015).…”

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Struggling with one’s own parenting after an upbringing with substance abusing parents

Tedgård

Råstam

Wirtberg

2018

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Aim: To add to our knowledge concerning the key elements involved in the individual’s experience of growing up with substance abusing parents and the resulting challenges this involved for their own parenthood. Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted with 19 parents who had participated in a mental health intervention programme. All had experienced substance abusing parents in their family of origin. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyse the data. They also completed a self-report questionnaire assessing their attachment style. Result: Participants reported a high incidence of emotional abuse and neglect coupled with inadequate support from the community. Their own parental role was influenced by high parental stress and a majority had an insecure attachment style. Conclusions: All participants had experienced a very difficult childhood which was reinforced by the fact that they received little support from society. Their childhood experience and the resulting challenges that this created in their own parenting role could negatively influence their own children’s ability to form a secure psychosocial development. It is therefore important to develop instruments that can help to identify children who were raised in misuse families in order to accommodate the transgenerational effects of growing up with substance abusing parents.

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Struggling with one’s own parenting after an upbringing with substance abusing parents

Tedgård

Råstam

Wirtberg

2018

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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“…We expected those COAs with two, rather than one, alcoholic parent may not benefit from the potential compensating protection offered by a nonalcoholic parent and thus would show greater social competence deficits (as suggested by Werner, 1986, though also see Curran & Chassin, 1996). In addition, children whose parents have experienced alcoholism more recently, as opposed to those whose parents were recovered, may also experience more acute chaos, stress, and unpredictability in the home environment, also increasing risk for social competence deficits (Pillow, Barrera, & Chassin, 1998).…”

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Social Competence in Children of Alcoholic Parents Over Time.

Hussong¹,

Zucker²,

Wong³

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Developmental Psychology

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In the current study, the authors tested the hypothesis that children of alcoholic parents (COAs) show deficits in social competence that begin in early childhood and escalate through middle adolescence. Teachers, parents, and children reported on the social competence of COAs and matched controls in a community sample assessed from ages 6 to 15. Hierarchical linear growth models revealed different patterns of change in social competence across development as a function of the reporter of various indicators of competence. Moreover, female COAs showed deficits in social competence in early childhood that receded in adolescence and that varied across subtypes of parent alcoholism. Implications of these findings for understanding the development of social competence in children, and at-risk children in particular, are discussed. Keywords parent alcoholism; social competence; social development; peer relationship; at-risk youthThe development of social competence is a fundamental aspect of children's adjustment. Children with friends have greater academic success and are less likely to be aggressive, lonely, and depressed compared with children without friends (Parker & Asher, 1987Rockhill, 1995). Moreover, both lower peer acceptance and greater peer rejection in preadolescents have been linked to lower feelings of self-worth and psychopathology in adulthood (Bagwell, Newcomb, & Bukowski, 1998), demonstrating the potential long-term consequences of social competence.Less understood than the impact of social competence, however, is the development of social competence itself. Theories of social competence posit that individual children change over time in their social functioning, suggesting a pattern of intraindividual variability, and that children vary from one another in the extent to which their social competence changes NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript over time, suggesting a pattern of interindividual variability (e.g., Berndt & Burgy, 1996;Eccles et al., 1989). Unfortunately, previous studies primarily use cross-sectional or shortterm (i.e., two time point) longitudinal designs that do not permit distinctions between these two types of change over time. Greater use of high-risk, prospective research designs with multiple assessment periods overcomes this limitation (Curran, Bollen, Paxton, Kirby, & Chen, 2002;Kalverboer, 1988;Ledingham, 1990). High-risk designs allow us to better model and understand low-base rate behaviors, such as child maladjustment and social deficits, and multiple assessment designs can disentangle intraindividual and interindividual change by using recent statistical advances (Raudenbush, 2001).One group of children who show an elevated risk for a broad range of problems is children of alcoholic parents (COAs; West & Prinz, 1987). Research concerning COAs has largely focused on risk for maladaptive behaviors in this population, indicating that COAs are more likely to show internalizing symptoms, aggression, and substance abuse than the...

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“…Although these protecting factors are important for prevention programmes, little research has been conducted in this area. Some suggest that a stable relationship with the parent who does not have a drinking problem (and/or with other adults) is an important protective factor (Werner, 1986), others assume that family rituals (such as holidays and festivities) and daily routines that give children a feeling of stability and cohesion are vital protective factors (Bennet, Wolin, & Reiss, 1988). The empirical evidence is, however, very limited.…”

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Prevention programmes for children of problem drinkers: A review

Cuijpers

2005

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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It is well established that children of problem drinkers have an increased risk of developing mental health problems, including drinking and drug misuse problems, depression, eating disorders, conduct disorders, and delinquency. However, compared to the hundreds of studies that have examined the effects of parental problem drinking on their children, the genetics of problem drinking, and the physical and mental problems of these children, it is disappointing that so few studies have explored the possibilities of prevention. Despite all the research on children of problem drinkers, we have no usable operationalizations of what problem drinking is, or when a child can be defined as a child of a problem drinker. Furthermore, no valid screening or severity assessment instruments are available; there is no solution for the ethical dilemma of the need to involve parents while these parents are at the same time the problem; very few theory-driven prevention programmes have been developed; very little is known about protective factors that could be the focus of prevention programmes; and we have no programmes that can be considered to be 'evidence based'. This paper describes these problems, presents an overview of the prevention research in this area, and gives some directions for future research.

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Resilient offspring of alcoholics: a longitudinal study from birth to age 18.

Cited by 433 publications

References 7 publications

Struggling with one’s own parenting after an upbringing with substance abusing parents

Struggling with one’s own parenting after an upbringing with substance abusing parents

Social Competence in Children of Alcoholic Parents Over Time.

Prevention programmes for children of problem drinkers: A review

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