TOPIC: Children of Alcoholics & Substance Abusers

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Training

• Student & Family Assistance Programs & Services to Address Barriers to Learning

Newsletter

• Substance Abuse Prevention: Toward Comprehensive, Multifaceted Approaches

Quickfind

• Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention

Resource Aid Packet

• Substance Abuse

Article

• Creating school and community partnerships for substance abuse prevention programs

Facts and Research

• Children of Addicted Parents: Important Facts
• Children of alcoholics: a school-based comparative study

General

• Children Living with Substance-Dependent or Substance-Abusing Parents: 2002-2007
• Children of Alcoholics: Are They Different?
• Children and Methamphetamine
• Children of Alcoholics - Special Issue of Alcohol Research & Health, 21(3)
• Answers to Common Questions about Children of Alcoholics
• Blamed and Ashamed: The Treatment Experience of Youth with Co-occuring Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disorders and Their Families
• Education and Child Care Initiatives for Young COAs
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• From prevention to treatment. Issues for school-aged children of alcoholics.
• How Many COAs and COSAs Are There?
• Linking Substance Abuse and Child Maltreatment
• Prevention and intervention strategies with children of alcoholics.
• Resiliency and Children of Substance Abusers

Professionals

• Children of alcoholics: implications for professional school counseling
• The Fact is Alcoholism Tends to Run in Families
• How You Can Help as an Educator
• How You Can Help as a Social Worker
• The Role of Primary Care Physicians
• Strategies for Parents and Caregivers of FAS and FAE Children
• What You Can Do as a Health Care Professional

Support Groups and Associations

• Children of Alcoholics
• COA Support Groups
• Children of alcoholics in the classroom: a survey of teacher perceptions and training needs.
• Drinking and motivations to drink among adolescent children of parents with alcohol problems.
• Disordered eating among adolescents whose parents misuse alcohol: protective and risk factors.
• "If Someone Had Been There For Me": Educational Support Groups for COAs

Video Clips

• The Story of Iyal
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Center for Excellence

• AlaTeen
• American council for Drug Education (ACDE)
• Children for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
• Children of Alcoholics Foundation (Works best with Internet Explorer)
• Partnership For a Drugfree America
• National Association for Children of Alcoholics
• National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained Through Libraries

• A small group model for working with elementary school children of alcoholics. By Arman,J.F. & McNair, R. (2000). In Professional School Counseling , 3(4): p290-293.
• Adolescent children of alcoholics: Vulnerable or resilient? By Mylant, M.L., Ide, B., Cuevas, E., & Meehan, M. (2002). In Journal of American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 8(2): p57-64.
• Cognitive/affective distancing as a coping strategy of children of parents with a drinking problem. By Dundas, I. (2000). In Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly , 18(4): p85-98.
• Do adolescent symptomatology and family environment vary over time with fluctuations in paternal alcolhol impairment? By Delucia, C., Belz, A., & Chassin, L. (2001). In Developmental Psychology , 37(2): p207-216.
• Does living with a substance abusing father increase substance abuse risk in male offspring? Impact on individual, family, school, and peer vulnerability factors. By Tarter, R.E., Schultz, K., Kirisci, L., & Dunn, M. (2001). In Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 10(3): p59-70.
• Developmental perspectives on risk and vulnerability in alcoholic families. By Leonard, K.E., Eiden, R.D., Wong, M.M., Zucker, R.A., Puttler, L.I., Fitzgerald, He.E., Hussong, A., Chassin, L., & Mudar, P. (2000). In Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 24(2): p238-240.
• Effects of childhood exposure to familial alcoholism and family violence on adolescent substance use, conduct problems, and self-esteem. By Ritter, J., Stewart, M., Bernet, C., Coe, M., & Brown, S.A. (2002). In Journal of Traumatic Stress, 15(2): p113-122.
• Estimates of US children exposed to alcohol abuse and dependence in the family. By Grant, B.F. (2000). In American Journal of Public Health ,90(1): p112-115.
• For teenagers living with a parent who abuses alcohol/drugs. By Hornik-Beer, E. (2001). Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.
• Intellectual, cognitive, and academic performance among sons of alcoholics, during the early school years: Differences related to subtypes of familial alcoholism. By Poon E., Ellis, D.A., & Fitzgerald, H.E., & Zucker, R.A. (2000). In Alcoholism:Clinical & Experimental Research, 24(7): p1020-7.
• Parental problem drinking and children's adjustment: Family conflict and parental depression as mediators and moderators of risk. By El-Sheikh, M., & Flanagan, E. (2001). In Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology , 29(5): p417-432.
• Patterns of alcohol and drug use in adolescents can be predicted by parental substance use disorders. By Biederman, J., Faraone, S. V., Monuteaux, M. C., & Feighner, J. A. (2000). In Pediatrics, 104(4): p792-797.
• Preadolescent children of substance-dependent fathers with antisocial personality disorder: Psychiatric disorders and problem behaviors. By Moss, H.B., Baron, D.A., Hardie, T.L., & Vanyukov, M.M. (2001). In American Journal on Addictions , 10(3): p269-278.
• Relationship of perceived social support to substance use in offspring of alcoholics. By Averna, S., & Hesselbrock, V. (2001). In Addictive Behaviors: An International Journal ,26(4): p363-374.
• School characteristics among children of alcoholic parents. By Casa-Gil, M.J. & Navarro-Guzman, J.I. (2002). In Psychological Reports , 90(1): p341-348.

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