OBJECTIVE: Mental illness in parents affects the mental health of their children. A systematic
review and a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of interventions to prevent mental disorders …

Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

Parental drinking problem can directly effect on their children. For this reason, children of
alcoholics (COAs) tend to show negative outcomes while they are growing up, such as …

Would you like to include more high interest cases in your Abnormal Psychology course?
Most textbooks on abnormal psychology include short descriptions of actual clinical cases …

Many opportunities to explain attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-related risk of
substance use disorder (SUD) remain available for study. We detail these opportunities by …

As it is still unclear to what extent parental drinking is a predictor of children's alcohol use,
we tested the association of specific paternal and maternal drinking patterns with both …

Background: Adolescents with a family history of alcoholism (FHP) are at risk for developing
an alcohol use disorder (AUD), and some studies indicate that FHP individuals show deficits …

Using a high-risk community sample (N= 405), the current study examined developmental
cascades among substance use, affiliation with substance use promoting peers, and …

Using a high-risk community sample (N= 567), the current study examined risk for
externalizing and internalizing problems in the children of parents with recovered and …

Although previous studies show that children of alcoholic parents have higher rates of
externalizing symptoms compared to their peers, it remains unclear whether the timing of …