Regular article: Alcoholics Anonymous attendance following 12-step treatment participation as a link between alcohol-dependent fathers' treatment involvement and their children's externalizing problems.
- Författare
- Andreas JB, O'Farrell TJ.
- Titel
- Regular article: Alcoholics Anonymous attendance following 12-step treatment participation as a link between alcohol-dependent fathers' treatment involvement and their children's externalizing problems.
- Utgivningsår
- 2009
- Tidskrift
- Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
- Volym
- 36
- Sidor
- 87-100
- Sammanfattning
We investigated longitudinal associations between alcoholic fathers' 12-step treatment involvement and their children's internalizing and externalizing problems (N=125, Mage=9.8±3.1), testing the hypotheses that fathers' greater treatment involvement would benefit later child behavior, and that this effect would be mediated by fathers' post-treatment behaviors. The initial association was established between fathers' treatment involvement and children's externalizing problems only, while structural equation (SEM) results supported mediating hypotheses. Fathers' greater treatment involvement predicted children's lower externalizing problems 12 months later, and fathers' post-treatment behaviors mediated this association: greater treatment involvement predicted greater post-treatment Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) attendance, which in turn predicted greater abstinence. Finally, fathers' abstinence was associated with lower externalizing problems in children. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.
Keywords: Children of alcoholics (COA), alcoholism treatment, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)