Longitudinal Associations Between Fathers' Heavy Drinking Patterns and Children's Psychosocial Adjustment

Overview

Journal J Abnorm Child Psychol

Publisher Springer

Date 2006 Nov 8

PMID 17089075

Citations 12

Authors

Jasmina Burdzovic Andreas

Timothy J OFarrell

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

Psychosocial adjustment in children of alcoholics (N = 114) was examined in the year before and at three follow-ups in the 15 months after their alcoholic fathers entered alcoholism treatment, testing the hypothesis that children's adjustment problems will vary over time as a function of their fathers' heavy drinking patterns. Three unique patterns of heavy drinking in alcoholic fathers were identified through cluster analysis. The results demonstrated significant and meaningful associations between these drinking patterns in fathers and adjustment problems in children over time. Overall, children whose fathers remained mostly abstinent following their treatment showed lowest and decreasing adjustment problems, while children whose fathers continued and increased heavy drinking following their treatment showed greatest and increasing adjustment problems over time.

Citing Articles

The Impact of the Opioid Epidemic on Children and Adolescents.

Winstanley E, Stover A Clin Ther. 2019; 41(9):1655-1662.

PMID: 31303278 PMC: 7017799. DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2019.06.003.

Psychosocial problems in children of women entering substance use disorder treatment: A longitudinal study.

Burdzovic Andreas J, OFarrell T Addict Behav. 2016; 65:193-197.

PMID: 27835858 PMC: 5140731. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.10.015.

Behavioral Couples Treatment for Substance Use Disorder: Secondary Effects on the Reduction of Youth Internalizing Symptoms.

Kelley M, Bravo A, Braitman A J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2016; 45(4):731-741.

PMID: 27523819 PMC: 5311033. DOI: 10.1007/s10802-016-0197-x.

The Relationships of Parental Alcohol Versus Tobacco and Marijuana Use With Early Adolescent Onset of Alcohol Use.

Capaldi D, Tiberio S, Kerr D, Pears K J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2016; 77(1):95-103.

PMID: 26751359 PMC: 4711325. DOI: 10.15288/jsad.2016.77.95.

Behavioral Couples Treatment for Substance Use Disorder: Secondary Effects on the Reduction of Risk for Child Abuse.

Kelley M, Bravo A, Braitman A, Lawless A, Lawrence H J Subst Abuse Treat. 2016; 62:10-9.

PMID: 26742725 PMC: 4724525. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsat.2015.11.008.

References

McMahon T, Rounsaville B . Substance abuse and fathering: adding poppa to the research agenda. Addiction. 2002; 97(9):1109-15. DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2002.00159.x. View

Rydelius P . Annotation: are children of alcoholics a clinical concern for child and adolescent psychiatrists of today?. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1997; 38(6):615-24. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01688.x. View

Simonian S, Tarnowski K . Utility of the Pediatric Symptom Checklist for behavioral screening of disadvantaged children. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2001; 31(4):269-78. DOI: 10.1023/a:1010213221811. View

West M, Prinz R . Parental alcoholism and childhood psychopathology. Psychol Bull. 1987; 102(2):204-18. View

El-Sheikh M, Flanagan E . Parental problem drinking and children's adjustment: family conflict and parental depression as mediators and moderators of risk. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2001; 29(5):417-32. DOI: 10.1023/a:1010447503252. View

Wong M, Zucker R, Puttler L, Fitzgerald H . Heterogeneity of risk aggregation for alcohol problems between early and middle childhood: nesting structure variations. Dev Psychopathol. 2000; 11(4):727-44. DOI: 10.1017/s0954579499002291. View

Bennett L, Wolin S, Reiss D . Cognitive, behavioral, and emotional problems among school-age children of alcoholic parents. Am J Psychiatry. 1988; 145(2):185-90. DOI: 10.1176/ajp.145.2.185. View

Chassin L, Pitts S, DeLucia C, Todd M . A longitudinal study of children of alcoholics: predicting young adult substance use disorders, anxiety, and depression. J Abnorm Psychol. 1999; 108(1):106-19. DOI: 10.1037//0021-843x.108.1.106. View

Chassin L, Rogosch F, Barrera M . Substance use and symptomatology among adolescent children of alcoholics. J Abnorm Psychol. 1991; 100(4):449-63. DOI: 10.1037//0021-843x.100.4.449. View

10.

MOOS R, Billings A . Children of alcoholics during the recovery process: alcoholic and matched control families. Addict Behav. 1982; 7(2):155-63. DOI: 10.1016/0306-4603(82)90040-5. View

11.

Puttler L, Zucker R, Fitzgerald H, Bingham C . Behavioral outcomes among children of alcoholics during the early and middle childhood years: familial subtype variations. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 1999; 22(9):1962-72. View

12.

Nye C, Zucker R, Fitzgerald H . Early family-based intervention in the path to alcohol problems: rationale and relationship between treatment process characteristics and child and parenting outcomes. J Stud Alcohol Suppl. 1999; 13:10-21. DOI: 10.15288/jsas.1999.s13.10. View

13.

Haugland B . Paternal alcohol abuse: relationship between child adjustment, parental characteristics, and family functioning. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2003; 34(2):127-46. DOI: 10.1023/a:1027394024574. View

14.

Callan V, Jackson D . Children of alcoholic fathers and recovered alcoholic fathers: personal and family functioning. J Stud Alcohol. 1986; 47(2):180-2. DOI: 10.15288/jsa.1986.47.180. View

15.

OFarrell T, Fals-Stewart W, Murphy M, Murphy C . Partner violence before and after individually based alcoholism treatment for male alcoholic patients. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2003; 71(1):92-102. DOI: 10.1037//0022-006x.71.1.92. View

16.

OFarrell T, Feehan M . Alcoholism treatment and the family: do family and individual treatments for alcoholic adults have preventive effects for children?. J Stud Alcohol Suppl. 1999; 13:125-9. DOI: 10.15288/jsas.1999.s13.125. View

17.

DeLucia C, BELZ A, Chassin L . Do adolescent symptomatology and family environment vary over time with fluctuations in paternal alcohol impairment?. Dev Psychol. 2001; 37(2):207-16. DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.37.2.207. View

18.

Schulenberg J, OMalley P, Bachman J, Wadsworth K, Johnston L . Getting drunk and growing up: trajectories of frequent binge drinking during the transition to young adulthood. J Stud Alcohol. 1996; 57(3):289-304. DOI: 10.15288/jsa.1996.57.289. View

19.

Murphy J, Reede J, Jellinek M, Bishop S . Screening for psychosocial dysfunction in inner-city children: further validation of the Pediatric Symptom checklist. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1992; 31(6):1105-11. DOI: 10.1097/00004583-199211000-00019. View

20.

Loukas A, Zucker R, Fitzgerald H, Krull J . Developmental trajectories of disruptive behavior problems among sons of alcoholics: effects of parent psychopathology, family conflict, and child undercontrol. J Abnorm Psychol. 2003; 112(1):119-31. View