Violence and alcoholism in the family: how are the children affected?

• Autor(a) principal: MALPIQUE, C.
• Data de Publicação: 1998
• Outros Autores: BARRIAS, P., MORAIS, L., SALGADO, M., PINTO DA COSTA, I., RODRIQUES, M.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.16/840

Alcohol Alcohol. 1998 Jan-Feb;33(1):42-6. Violence and alcoholism in the family: how are the children affected? Malpique C, Barrias P, Morais L, Salgado M, Pinto Da Costa I, Rodriques M. SourceChild and Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Hospital Central de Criancas Maria Pia, Porto, Portugal. Abstract We made an evaluation of how children and adolescents are affected if they live in a family environment where violence associated with alcoholism is a feature. Interviews with 20 families and the use of psychological tests on their children were performed in this study. The study has demonstrated the existence of psychopathological disturbances in those families' children, whose immaturity and insecurity were expressed by aggressive behaviour or by depressive manifestations. It also became evident that there was a transgenerational alcoholism-violence frequency.