Alcoholics Anonymous attendance following 12-step treatment participation as a link between alcohol-dependent fathers' treatment involvement and their children's externalizing problems

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-100

  Andreas, Jasmina Burdzovic ^a   O'Farrell, Timothy J ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholics Anonymous, AA; Alcoholism treatment; Children of alcoholics, COA; Structural Equation Modeling, SEM

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS; ALCOHOLISM; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FATHERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TEMPERANCE;

EID: 56449129375     PISSN: 07405472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsat.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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