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Resilience among youth growing up in substance-abusing families
1Department of Psychiatry, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA.
Pediatric Clinics of North America
|April 1, 1995
Abstract:
This article presents the Challenge Model, a new clinical paradigm for evaluating the children of alcoholics and other substance-abusing parents. Unlike traditional risk paradigms, the Challenge Model incorporates both the resilience and the vulnerabilities that can result from struggling with hardship early in life. A developmental vocabulary of strengths is provided for pediatricians to use in research, clinical thinking, and treatment and prevention efforts with COAs.