The Effects of Parental Dysfunction on Children

by McMahon, Robert J.; Peters, Ray Dev

• ISBN13: 9780306472527
• ISBN10: 030647252X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

Recent experience with interventions designed to promote the well-being of children and to prevent mental health problems has identified particular challenges in families with disordered parents. These families are often very difficult to engage in mental health promotion and prevention programs, and they may be especially resistant to intervention. The Effects of Parental Dysfunction on Children explores the current level of knowledge regarding the processes by which a number of parental disorders influence the developmental outcomes of children. Renowned scientist-practitioners from the United States, Canada, and Australia contributed ten chapters to this volume addressing the topic of the effects of parental behavioral and emotional disorders on children. The major topics covered by this book focus on children growing up in families in which the parents suffer from major psychosocial difficulties, including schizophrenia, depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, anxiety disorders, intellectual disabilities, and antisocial personality disorder.This volume is divided into two sections:- Scholarly descriptions of developmental models for conceptualizing the various risk and protective factors (genetic, biological, and environmental) that play critical roles in the transmission of the effects of parental disorder to the development of the child; and- Specific parental disorders and their effects on children in the family. These chapters cover descriptive psychopathology, implications for intervention (both treatment and prevention), and descriptions of intervention procedures.The Effects of Parental Dysfunction on Children is a valuable resource for clinical child psychologists, developmental psychologists, and family therapists, as well as for graduate-level students in child and family psychology, psychiatry, and social work.

Table of Contents

Conceptual Overview	1	(2)
The Role of Endogenous and Exogenous Risk Factors in the Genesis of Schizophrenia	3	(14)
Elaine F. Walker
Familial Factors and Substance Use Disorders	17	(24)
Kathleen Ries Merikangas
PARENTAL DYSFUNCTIONS	41	(2)
High-Risk Samples	43	(28)
A Longitudinal Study of Aggressive and Withdrawn Children into Adulthood: Patterns of Parenting and Risk to Offspring	43	(28)
Lisa A. Serbin
Dale M. Stack
Alex E. Schwartzman
Jessica Cooperman
Vivianne Bentley
Christina Saltaris
Jane E. Ledingham
Internalizing Disorders	71	(34)
Preventing Depression in Children Through Resiliency Promotion: The Preventive Intervention Project	71	(16)
William R. Beardslee
Eve M. Versage
Polly Van de Velde
Susan Swatling
Lizbeth Hoke
Learning and Intimacy in the Families of Anxious Children	87	(18)
Mark R. Dadds
Externalizing Disorders	105	(22)
Understanding the Association between Parent and Child Antisocial Behavior	105	(22)
Paul J. Frick
Bryan R. Loney
Substance Use	127	(78)
Growing up in an Alcoholic Family: Structuring Pathways for Risk Aggregation and Theory-Driven Intervention	127	(20)
Hiram E. Fitzgerald
W. Hobart Davies
Robert A. Zucker
Helping Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Related Conditions: A Clinician's Overview	147	(32)
Heather Carmichael Olson
Children of Substance-Abusing Parents: Current Findings from the Focus on Families Project	179	(26)
Richard F. Catalano
Kevin P Haggerty
Charles B. Fleming
Devon D. Brewer
Randy R. Gainey
Developmental Disabilities	205	(20)
Children of Parents with Intellectual Disabilities	205	(20)
Maurice A. Feldman
Index	225