Alcohol and Adolescent Abuse: The Alcan Family Services Treatment Model

• NCJ Number: 137358
• Author(s): J P Flanzer; K Sturkie
• Date Published: 1987
• Length: 85 pages
• Grant Number(s): 90-C-1757
• Sponsoring Agency: US Dept of Health and Human Services
• Sale Source: Learning Publications, Inc
• Publication Type: Program Description (Demonstrative)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This report presents the findings of the Arkansas Alcohol/Child Abuse Demonstration Project (ALCAN) designed to analyze adolescent-abusing families and to treat those families dealing with adolescent abuse and severe neglect combined with the problem of the misuse of alcohol by the parents.

Abstract

Data from the ALCAN project, created to provide family treatment to over 100 abusing families in Pulaski County and to delineate the drinking habits of these families, supports the multivariate orientation to maltreatment now dominant in the literature. Poverty, rather than race or ethnicity, was associated with adolescent maltreatment. The level of physical abuse and neglect related directly and positively to the father's level of drinking and, perhaps, abuse related inversely to the mother's drinking. The level of emotional abuse and neglect related directly and positively to the mother's level of drinking. Pre-post treatment results revealed significantly lower drinking levels despite indirect alcohol treatment interventions. The report concludes with policy recommendations. 3 figures, 35 tables, and 198 references