Adaptive and Reactive Distancing Among Adolescents From Alcoholic Families

• NCJ Number: 114308
• Journal: Adolescence Volume: 23 Issue: 91 Dated: (Fall 1988) Pages: 577-584
• Author(s): R Berlin; R B Davis; A Orenstein
• Date Published: 1988
• Length: 8 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Based on work with adolescents at a mental health center and an alcohol education program, some of the difficulties children of alcoholics experience in separating from their homes are considered.

Abstract

These difficulties are described in terms of organizing fantasies in which adolescents use relationships outside of their homes to work through unresolved feelings about their families. (Author abstract)