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- Title
History of Sexual Abuse and Parental Alcohol Misuse: Risk, Outcomes and Protective Factors in Adolescents.
- Authors
Chandy, Joseph M.; Blum, Robert W.; Resnick, Michael D.
- Abstract
The article examines adverse outcomes on school performance, suicidal tendency, disordered eating behaviors, pregnancy risk and chemical use of teenagers with a history of sexual abuse and parental alcohol misuse. There are 28,600,000 children of alcoholics in the U.S., representing one out of every eight Americans. Six and a half million of them are youngsters under the age of 18 years who are subjected to the fear, uncertainties, and problems which result from parental alcohol misuse. The remaining twenty-two million are adults who may well continue to suffer the long-lasting negative consequences caused by life in an alcoholic family. Evidence also exists the sexual abuse has long lasting effects. During adult life, history of sexual abuse has been associated with sexual dysfunction, emotional problems like anxiety and depressive symptoms, suicidality and, revictimization. The article presents a study which suggests that far from there being an inevitability of adverse outcomes among adolescents at risk, there are protective factors that appear to mitigate the course of destiny of distress among young people.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHILDREN of people with alcoholism; CHILD sexual abuse; TEENAGERS; SEXUAL dysfunction; MENTAL health
- Publication
Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal, 1996, Vol 13, Issue 5, p411
- ISSN
0738-0151
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF01875858