Alcoholic Children and social learning theory
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"Children prenatal exposed to drugs and alcohol represent only a small proportion of the children affected and potentially endangered by parental substance abuse. An areas that not well research and more relival=nt is postnatal alcoholism and the effectect on the child".
UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Family and Children
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Stress is an inevitable part of growing up as a member of a family. Alcoholic families are distinct in that they are a subclass of families that's needs are different than a family absent of a substance abuser. Children in these substance dependent families develop behaviors that are survival devices to cope with this often tumultuous environment. Substance dependent parents communication styles can be detrimental to their children.
Examinations of alcoholic families and the ways in which they differ from a more traditional upbringing are plentiful. This study will look at the way stress which stems from the anticipation of the reaction the alcoholic parent will exude effects these children of alcoholic parents and how these worries carry over into the adult child of the alcoholic's life causing unnecessary anxiety. Another purpose of this study is to measure how prevalent these stressors are and whether these anticipations of reactions eventually subdue once the alcoholic parent seeks treatment and is successful with that treatment.
The problem to be looked at in this study is whether Adult Children of Alcoholics continue to experience anticipation and anxiety over behaviors that used to be present when their parents were drinking, but now, because the parent has been through recovery those behaviors are absent...