Paternal Alcohol Abuse: Relationship between Child Adjustment, Parental Characteristics, and Family Functioning

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 127-146

  Haugland, Bente Storm Mowatt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Child adjustment; Children of alcoholics; Family functioning; Parental psychological problems

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADJUSTMENT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PARENT; POPULATION; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 0344420308     PISSN: 0009398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1027394024574     Document Type: Article

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