Adult Children of Parents With an Alcohol Use Disorder

Adults whose own personal, social and familial coping has been negatively affected by being reared by or having contact in their formative years with a parent or parent figure who had an alcohol use disorder, including a possibly dysfunctional family response to this situation and who, as a result, have internalized both the excessive alcohol consumption and codependency patterns of coping which may interfere with positive adjustments in adult life.