Synopses & Reviews
Review
Barnes and Augustino have used their research and library skills to provide the most thorough and comprehensive listing to date of the literature on alcohol abuse in the family. All major database sources on alcohol and family were searched to provide more than 6,000 references to the worldwide scholarly literature, primarily from the last 25 years (1961-1986), with a few citations for earlier years. Complete journal titles are used. The work is extremely accurate... The excellent introductory chapter treats topics such as genetic and environmental transmission, alcoholism and familial psychiatric disorders, marital interaction, family violence, and family therapy and treatment, and is cogent and objective. This bibliography should serve as a beginning for all reviews of the literature and will greatly aid research in this important area of study. It is essential for all medical, academic, and large public libraries.Choice
Review
Alcohol and the Family is a comprehensive bibliography listing over 6,000 articles and books directly linking alcohol use and abuse and family members. The citations are arranged alphabetically by author; a detailed subject index provides access through several hundred headings ranging from `abstinence,' `adolescents,' and `Al-Anon' to `treatment,' `violent behavior,' and `wife abuse.' Compilers Grace M. Barnes and Diane K. Augustino contribute an introductory essay describing current research in such areas as genetic predisposition and transmission of alcoholism, familial psychiatric disorders and alcoholism, family violence, and family therapy and the treatment of alcoholism.American Libraries
Review
...This book biblography is the most comprehensive treatment of this seminal subject that I have seen. Barnes and Augustino have contributed a reference source that represents an invaluable, much-needed access to this important area of concern. They have certainly succeeded in their purpose, and in so doing have brought together in one volume a comprehensive compilation of literature on this seminal subject area. It will be of much use to anyone interested in alcoholo and the family, now and in the future.Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly
About the Author
GRACE M. BARNES is a research scientist at the New York State Research Institute on Alcoholism.DIANE K. AUGUSTINO is a librarian and research scientist at the New York State Research Institute on Alcoholism.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Alcohol and the Family: A Bibliography
Index