Abstract
Interventions to build resilience in children of problem drinkers
Highlights
Description of the conditionProblem drinking by parents or carers is a significant social problem and varying prevalence rates across race and ethnic groups indicate that some children and young people may be at greater risk than others
Nine million children and young people in the European Union (EU) are estimated to live with at least one parent addicted to alcohol (Eurocare 2012)
In addition to the methods outlined earlier, this approach may benefit children by reducing the levels of stress they experience, and the provision of relevant information may help the child to understand concepts and the parent's behaviour, helping to reduce self-blame and guilt about parental drinking (Emsho 1999). While these theoretical underpinnings outline how the intervention may work, it is important to note that demographic variables may have an impact on intervention outcomes; for example, 'Gance-Cleveland 2008 reported that girls in the intervention group demonstrated improved resilience measured by increased coping compared to the control group
Summary
Problem drinking by parents or carers is a significant social problem and varying prevalence rates across race and ethnic groups indicate that some children and young people may be at greater risk than others. In addition to the methods outlined earlier, this approach may benefit children by reducing the levels of stress they experience, and the provision of relevant information may help the child to understand concepts (such as 'tolerance,' 'blackouts' and 'withdrawal') and the parent's behaviour, helping to reduce self-blame and guilt about parental drinking (Emsho 1999) While these theoretical underpinnings outline how the intervention may work, it is important to note that demographic variables may have an impact on intervention outcomes; for example, 'Gance-Cleveland 2008 reported that girls in the intervention group demonstrated improved resilience measured by increased coping compared to the control group. In contrast to the current protocol, their review focused on substance-a ected families (as opposed to alcohola ected families only), included studies with a range of designs (randomised controlled trials (RCTs), and controlled or quasiexperimental, descriptive and qualitative studies) and had a number of date and language restrictions (the authors searched for studies over a 15-year period (1994 to 2009) that were published in English or German)
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