PARENT & childALCOHOLICSINTERPERSONAL relationsThe purpose of the present study was to explore how children experience and cope with interpersonal distance in families with an alcoholic parent. Seventeen children of alcoholic parents were interviewed. These children described a physical and cognitive/...
However, in a pilot study of a web-based intervention aimed at young people having at least one parent diagnosed with a psychiatric or multiple psychological disorders, or an addiction problem, the attrition rate was found to be 28% [26]. Assuming a similar attrition rate of 30%, we ...
Sex differences exist in pain and the strategies used to cope with pain. Although it is has been proposed that such differences become apparent around puberty, somewhat surprisingly very little research has specifically investigated sex as a moderator of pain within adolescents. The primary aim of ...
Now, he’s got a new wife and stepson and still has an every other weekend arrangement to see my daughter. Rather than do anything with her, he most often picks her up and takes her to his parent’s house – he actually sees our daughter very infrequently, but boy when he does, she...
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An emerging line of research on birth trauma can help us to understand just how common this experience is and how to cope with this experience. There should be room to expressbothgratitudeabout the birthas wellas process the trauma,anger, and feeling of loss that may have occurred at the ...
To fail your parent in their hour of greatest need is unforgivable. 22 Litsa February 4, 2023 at 4:12 am Reply Jonathan, I am so sorry for your father’s death and for the guilt you feel. Learning to live with guilt is often about not eliminating the guilt, but learning to live...
the balance resting keeps with labor, this way with that way – and we know that any side is chaos without the other. Some wonder who could believe in an evil if they don’t believe in God. Or, would there ever be rich if there weren’t the poor, an ugly if not for pretty, hap...
Disengagement and engagement coping strategies used in response to recent stressors were compared in groups who had none, one, two, or three or more types of adverse and/or abusive childhood experiences (sexual abuse, physical abuse, witnessing domestic violence, having an alcoholic parent, and ...
Studies college students with alcoholic fathers (adult children of alcoholics, ACA; n = 84) and with nonalcoholic parents (n = 123) with regard to perceptions of their families, depressive experiences, and coping styles within a developmental model of depression that focuses on object ...