Working with Children of Alcoholics

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.