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El-Bassel, Nabila; Schilling, Robert; Ivanoff, Andre; Chen, Duan-Rung; Hanson, Meredith – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1998
Describes the results of administering the World Health Organization's Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) to 400 incarcerated drug-using women. Reports on AUDIT's utility, validity, and reliability. Results demonstrate that AUDIT can be used to identify problem drinkers among incarcerated, drug-using women. (MKA)
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Depression (Psychology), Drug Abuse, Evaluation

Page, Richard C.; Berkow, Daniel N. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1998
Describes group work designed to promote spiritual development with drug and alcohol abusers. Provides a definition of spirituality. Discusses research that relates to the spiritual development of members of drug and alcohol groups. Compares the ways that group work and Alcoholics Anonymous promote spiritual development. (Author/MKA)
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Case Studies, Drug Abuse, Group Therapy

Fischer, Kathy E.; Kittleson, Mark; Ogletree, Roberta; Welshimer, Kathleen; Woehlke, Paula; Benshoff, John – Journal of American College Health, 2000
Investigated relationships between collegiate adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs) and adult children from dysfunctional families (ACDFs) to determine whether they were at greater risk of stress than non-ACOA and non-ACDF students. Evaluations of students indicated that substantial numbers were ACOAs, ACDFs, or both, and the groups overlapped.…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, College Students, Family Influence, Higher Education
Kahler, Christopher W.; Read, Jennifer P.; Ramsey, Susan E.; Stuart, Gregory L.; McCrady, Barbara S.; Brown, Richard A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2004
Forty-eight patients undergoing inpatient detoxification for alcohol dependence were assigned to either brief advice (BA) to attend Alcoholics Anonymous or a motivational enhancement for 12-step involvement (ME-12) intervention that focused on increasing involvement in 12-step self-help groups. Attendance at 12-step groups did not differ…
Descriptors: Patients, Alcoholism, Self Help Programs, Outcomes of Treatment
Stuart, Gregory L. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2005
There is extensive empirical and theoretical support for a link between alcohol use and intimate partner violence. Recent innovations in the assessment of these constructs have shown a strong temporal link between alcohol use and intimate partner violence. The majority of men participating in batterer intervention programs have alcohol problems,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Males, Drinking, Alcoholism
Hingson, Ralph W.; Heeren, Timothy; Winter, Michael R. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: We explored whether people who become alcohol dependent at younger ages are more likely to seek alcohol-related help or treatment or experience chronic relapsing dependence. Methods: In 2001-2002 the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism completed a face-to-face interview survey with a multistage probability sample of 43…
Descriptors: Probability, Depression (Psychology), Alcoholism, Age Differences
Crespi, Tony D.; Rueckert, Quentin H. – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2006
Clinicians involved in family therapy are increasingly concerned with the impact of parental alcoholism on individual development and family functioning. With more than 20 million adults raised within an alcoholic family, and with widespread problems associated with parental alcoholism, clinicians providing family treatment have a potentially…
Descriptors: Group Therapy, Alcoholism, Continuing Education, Substance Abuse
Wallisch, Lynn S.; Spence, Richard T. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2006
This study describes the prevalence of alcohol and drug use, abuse, and dependence among adults on the Texas-Mexico border in 2002-2003. The findings are based on survey responses from a random sample of 1,200 adults living in households in three communities: El Paso, a densely populated city in west Texas; the less dense urbanized areas of the…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Drinking, Drug Use, Alcoholism
Lewis, Virginia; Allen-Byrd, Lois – Prevention Researcher, 2006
Beginning with an introduction to the concept of family recovery, this article explores its stages and three distinct types of families in recovery. The primary focus, however, is the impact family recovery has on pre-teens and adolescents who are the "forgotten" family members in this radical and traumatic long-term process. (Contains 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Preadolescents, Family Environment
Tillman, Peggie S. – 1992
A variety of databases were searched for the compilation of this bibliography on adolescent alcoholism, reflecting the psychological and socioeconomic aspects covered. Nine hundred and twenty-eight citations in English and foreign languages for the period January 1986 through April 1992 were included. For journal articles written in a foreign…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholism, Genetics, Health Services
Perez, Joseph F. – 1986
This book considers the dynamics and characteristics of the alcoholic family. The first part examines the alcoholic family. Needs such as security, love, and self-esteem, and defenses such as denial, rationalization, projection, regression, fantasy, displacement, and avoidance are discussed. Common denominators in the personalities of enablers…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Case Studies, Communication Skills, Coping
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (DHHS), Rockville, MD. – 1988
This document is intended to be used by school personnel when helping students with home problems. Section 1 suggests four ways school personnel may help students with alcoholic parents: listen and communicate; be aware of one's own limitations and do not attempt to change the student's home environment; foster primary relationships; and remain…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, Children, Family Characteristics
Gover, F. Jill – 1991
Children of alcoholics/addicts (COAs) are at a greater risk to develop alcohol and drug dependency, eating disorders, attention deficit disorders, stress-related illness, and suicidal behavior. Children become part of a conspiracy of silence by being told not to talk about the drug problem. The family members assume different roles which…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Children, Drug Addiction, Family Environment
O'Farrell, Timothy J. – 1991
Couples therapy interventions can be used with alcohol abusers and alcoholics during three broadly defined states of recovery: (1) initial commitment to change; (2) change itself; and (3) long-term maintenance of change. Intervening with the alcoholic's spouse (and/or other nonalcoholic family members) can motivate and reinforce commitment to…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Drug Rehabilitation

Nerviano, Vincent J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
This investigation assumed that proper measures and multivariate methods would identify homogeneous subgroups of alcoholics and that these would reflect known clinical syndromes. Data for alcoholic veterans (N=366) were gathered and examined by factor and correlational analysis. Contrasts among seven obtained types led to characterization of each…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Males, Psychological Characteristics, Psychological Patterns