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Working with Children of Alcoholics

The Practitioner's Handbook
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The second edition of this text draws on research to: look at the issue of alcoholism from a systems perspective of family functioning; place alcoholism in a larger cultural context; examine the effects of alcoholism on essential family processes; help identify problems and difficulties to which even resilient children of alcoholics are prone; address academic performance and behavioural problems; guide practitioners through the process of identifying and treating children and other members of alcoholics' families.
A systems perspective of the family; a sociohistorical perspective of alcoholism in the United States; living and surviving in an alcoholic home; psychological adjustment of children of alcoholics; risks and hazards in behaviour and development; identifying children of alcoholics; programs and treatment strategies for children of alcoholics; intergrational transmission of alcoholism; resources for working with children of alcoholics.
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