The Effects of Parental Substance Abuse on the Behavior of School Children
Description:
The purpose of the present archival study was to investigate the relationship between parental substance abuse and the risk for maladjustment and psychopathology in children in a clinic sample. Children of alcoholic parents and children of drug-dependent parents were compared to children of non-substance abusing parents. The subjects were 83 boys age 6 to 12. Children of substance abuse parents had lower levels of adaptive functioning and higher levels of school behavioral problems. Although pr…
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Date:
May 1993
Creator:
Prelow, Hazel (Hazel M.)
Partner:
UNT Libraries