Traumatic Symptomatology Characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics

• Published in: Journal of drug education Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 195 - 211
• Main Authors: Hall, Cathy W., Webster, Raymond E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.01.2002; Baywood; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Adaptation, Psychological; Addictive behaviors; Adolescent; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Adult children; Adult Children of Alcoholics; Adults; Alcoholics; Alcoholism; Alcoholism - psychology; Analysis of Variance; Biological and medical sciences; Child of Impaired Parents - psychology; Childhood; Children of alcoholics; Depression; Drug prevention; Family environment. Family history; Family Influence; Family of origin; Female; Humans; Life Change Events; Life Events; Male; Medical sciences; Mental depression; Personal control; Personal Satisfaction; Personality Development; Personality Inventory; Predictor Variables; Psychological trauma; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Resilience; Resilience (Personality); Risk; Risk Factors; Self report; Social Adjustment; Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - epidemiology; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology; Stress Management; Students - psychology; Traumatic life events; Traumatic stress; USA; Young Adults; Mood disorder; Social environment; Human; Progeny; Symptomatology; Life events; Alcoholism; Family environment; Depression; Trauma; Stress

Traumatic experience symptomatology, resiliency factors, and stress among young adults who had experienced alcoholism within their family of origin were assessed in comparison to adults who as children experienced traumatic life events other than alcoholism and those who indicated neither problem (p...