Effects of Parental Dysfunction on Children

• Conceptual Overview.- 1. The Role of Endogenous and Exogenous Risk Factors in the Genesis of Schizophrenia.- 2. Familial Factors and Substance Use Disorders.- Parental Dysfunctions.- High-Risk Samples.- 3. A Longitudinal Study of Aggressive and Withdrawn Children into Adulthood: Patterns of Parenting and Risk to Offspring.- Internalizing Disorders.- 4. Preventing Depression in Children Through Resiliency Promotion: The Preventive Intervention Project.- 5. Learning and Intimacy in the Families of Anxious Children.- Externalizing Disorders.- 6. Understanding the Association between Parent and Child Antisocial Behavior.- Substance Use.- 7. Growing up in an Alcoholic Family: Structuring Pathways for Risk Aggregation and Theory-Driven Intervention.- 8. Helping Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Related Conditions: A Clinician’s Overview.- 9. Children of Substance-Abusing Parents: Current Findings from the Focus on Families Project.- Developmental Disabilities.- 10. Children of Parents with Intellectual Disabilities.

From the reviews: "Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." Choice, 40:5 (2003) "Overall, the book is a sound addition to the field of psychology and sheds light on the most current thought and research involving parental dysfunctions and the developmental effects on children." (Nicholas Greco IV, MS) "It is a collection of nine chapters taken from a symposium in Banff. The chapters range fairly widely, from the general review of the causation of schizophrenia to longitudinal studies. ... there are interesting and unusual nuggets to be found. These include a very thoughtful chapter on the association between parent and child anti-social behaviour ... that shows that fathers with anti-social personality disorder have children with higher rates of conduct disorder whether or not they are in contact with them." (Stephen Scott, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Vol. 9 (4), 2004)