TOPIC: Children of Alcoholics & Substance Abusers

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Books and Chapters
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide
• Addressing Trauma and Other Barriers to Learning and Teaching: Developing a Comprehensive System of Intervention

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
• Protective Factors (Resiliency)
• Substance Abuse

Practice and Guidance Notes
• Supports for Students Deemed At-Risk

Information Resources
• About Resilience and Schools
• Barriers, Buffers, & Youth Development

Article
• Addressing student and schooling problems: Not another project: Child safety should be embedded in the missions of schools
• Creating school and community partnerships for substance abuse prevention programs

Facts and Research
• Children of Alcoholics: A School-Based Comparative Study
• Protective Mental Health Factors in Children of Parents with Alcohol and Drug Use Disorders: A Systematic Review
• A Review of Recent Literature on the Impact of Parental Substance Use Disorders on Children and the Provision of Effective Services

General
• Alcohol and Drug Use among College Student Adult Children of Alcoholics
• Children of Alcoholics: Are They Different?
• Children of Alcoholics: Special Issue of Alcohol Research and Health
• Coping Behavior and Depressive Symptoms in Adult Children of Alcoholics
• From Prevention to Treatment. Issues for School-Aged Children of Alcoholics.
• Mutual Help Groups, Perceived Status Benefits, and Well-Being: A Test with Adult Children of Alcoholics with Personal Substance Abuse Problems
• Parents' Concordant and Discordant Alcohol Use and Subsequent Child Behavioral Outcomes
• Prevention and Intervention Strategies with Children of Alcoholics.

Support Groups and Associations
• Children of Alcoholics in the Classroom: A Survey of Teacher Perceptions and Training Needs.
• Disordered Eating Among Adolescents Whose Parents Misuse Alcohol: Protective and Risk Factors.

• Al-Anon/AlaTeen
• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
• National Association for Children of Alcoholics
• National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• The Partnership at Drugfree.org

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