The challenge model. Working with strengths in children of substance abusing parents
- Författare
- Wolin S, Wolin S.
- Titel
- The challenge model. Working with strengths in children of substance abusing parents
- Utgivningsår
- 1996
- Tidskrift
- Adolescent substance abuse and dual disorders
- Volym
- 5
- Häfte
- 1
- Sidor
- 243-57
- Sammanfattning
Children of alcoholics are commonly pictured as destined to become alcoholics themselves and to develop psychological problems. Research on children of alcoholics, however, has not strongly supported this impression. Rather, there is good reason to believe that children of alcoholics develop a checkerboard of strengths and weaknesses. Although the weaknesses are adequately explained by a traditional risk paradigm that we have called the damage model, the strengths are overlooked. The challenge model and its related vocabulary of strengths extends the damage model by including the possibility that children of alcoholics and other children of hardship can be resilient as well as vulnerable. The model offers a developmental vocabulary of resilience. The challenge model implies that psychiatrists should not launch exclusively a search for pathology in children of alcoholics, but should ask questions of patients more along the line of 'How is your struggle going?'