PARENT-CHILD INTERACTIONS IN ALCOHOLIC AND NONALCOHOLIC FAMILIES

Authors
WHIPPLE EE FITZGERALD HE ZUCKER RA
Citation
Ee. Whipple et al., PARENT-CHILD INTERACTIONS IN ALCOHOLIC AND NONALCOHOLIC FAMILIES, American journal of orthopsychiatry, 65(1), 1995, pp. 153-159
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychiatry
Journal title
American journal of orthopsychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029432
Volume
65
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
153 - 159
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9432(1995)65:1<153:PIIAAN>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
A community-recruited sample of alcoholic and nonalcoholic families wa s videotaped in a standardized play task involving parents and their p reschool-aged sons. Microanalyses revealed that alcoholic families had lower dyadic synchrony, that parents were viewed as less able to enga ge their children, and that the coders liked the control parents and c hildren more. Variations in the parent-child interactions are discusse d.