Risk and Resilience

• Growing Up with Parents with Drinking Problems and Establishing an Adult Life: Four IllustrationsWhat Was Already Known: A Review of Previous ResearchDoing Research on the Subject: The Design of the Present StudyRecollections of Growing Up with Parents with Drinking Problems - Results IThe Children of Problem Drinking Parents as Young Adults - Results IIExplanations for Differences in Adulthood Adjustment - Results IIIHow Has Our Understanding Advanced? Summary and IntegrationImplications for Intervention, Service Development and Prevention

"Essential for all libraries, this important contribution to the understanding of a significant social problem should become a classic." -- D.J. Hanson of SUNY College at Potsdam"For researchers, this is a detailed review of existing literature and a great new body of data and analysis to complement and extend knowledge in the field...It gives practitioners much needed information to help address the cognitive and behavioural effects on children of alcoholics, and how working on family strengthening and family harmony can build the resistance to reduce likelihood of problem drinking later in life." -- Journal of Substance Misuse