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Report of the forum on protective factors, resiliency, and vulnerable children
Children of Alcoholics Foundation
This report states that one in four children of alcoholics will become an alcoholic. The report focuses on the resiliency of the other three healthy children, asserting that certain strengths and protective factors help children of alcoholics grow up to be successful, fully developed adults. These factors include a supportive, positive, infant experience, and a school and community that provide healthy outlets for success and achievement. The report also probes the actual meaning of resiliency - its sources and manifestations - and states that resilience is contextual, increasing and decreasing over time. It encourages researchers to explore the role of resiliency and to advocate for collaboration between researchers and programmers to enhance and increase resiliency factors in the lives of children of alcoholics. The report includes an annotated bibliography of relevant articles and books and lists of sources of support for children of alcoholics.
Children of Alcoholics Foundation Inc. Box 4185 Grand Central Station New York, NY 10163 (800) 359-2623 or (212) 754-0656 Fax (212) 754-0664 (1992, 43 pp.; $7.50)
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