Open AccessPsychiatric morbidity in children of alcoholic parents
Author(s) -
Himanshu Mansharamani,
Pradeep S Patil,
Prakash B. Behere,
Deepak Mansharamani,
Amit Nagdive
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_57_17
Subject(s) - psychopathology , somatization , anxiety , psychiatry , schedule for affective disorders and schizophrenia , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , medicine , psychology , economics , macroeconomics
Children of alcoholics (COAs) are children who have grown up in families in which either one or both parents are alcoholic. The interplay of several factors such as environmental, cognitive, and genetic vulnerability has been linked to the psychopathology among COAs.