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Item Open Access Revisiting the Concept of Adaptive Familial Roles and Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA): Forty Years Later(2019-03-05) Dhami, Navneet Kaur; Wintre, Maxine A. G.The term adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs) refers to adults who have grown up in a home with at least one alcoholic parent. ACOAs have often been studied as a homogenous group without examining type of family dysfunction. The present study investigated the relation between demographics, personality, and parenting measures and Wegscheiders (1981) ACOA adaptive familial roles of Hero (responsible overachiever), Mascot (family clown), Scapegoat (rebellious/disruptive behaviours), and Lost Child (withdrawn/isolated). Data were collected from 327 participants (M age = 35.3 years) who self-identified and were grouped as ACOA, Abused, ACOA+Abused, or Control. Generally, the ACOA group was similar to the Control group in terms of family roles and measures of personality and parenting but differed from both the Abused and the ACOA+Abused groups, with the exception of the Lost Child role. Higher scores were found for the positive Hero and Mascot roles in the Control and ACOA groups compared to the Abused and ACOA+Abused groups. Conversely, higher scores for the negative Scapegoat role were found among the Abused and ACOA+Abused groups compared to the Control and ACOA groups. There was a strong influence of personality related to the adoption of family roles whereas the influence of parenting was small in comparison. Individuals from the family type groups were more likely to adopt the Lost Child role compared to the Control group but the influence of family type group was negligible for the other family roles. The significance of this studys findings and clinical relevance are discussed.Item Open Access The Role of Self-Concept in a Community-Based Study of the Effectiveness of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Trauma-Exposed Children(2024-07-18) Konanur, Sheila; Muller, Robert TomTrauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) is a widely used treatment model for trauma (Cohen, Mannarino, & Deblinger, 2006). The Healthy Coping Program was a multi-site community-based study which evaluated the effectiveness of TF-CBT with trauma-exposed school-aged children in a diverse Canadian city (Muller & DiPaolo, 2008). Using data from the Healthy Coping Program, the role of children’s self-concept, and its relationship to posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms were examined. Self-report data were collected from a total of 111 trauma-exposed children referred for a trauma-focused intervention (assessment and TF-CBT). Children’s self-concept was measured using the short form version of the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale – Second Edition (Fitts & Warren, 1996). Children’s PTS was measured using the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (Briere, 1996). Trauma-exposed children’s self-concept was found to have a decreasingly significant negative relationship with PTS symptoms over the course of assessment and TF-CBT. Self-concept was significantly more dysfunctional amongst trauma-exposed children compared to a normative sample of children. Significant improvements in trauma-exposed children’s self-concept were observed after receiving trauma-focused intervention. Trauma-exposed children’s self-concept moved from a clinically dysfunctional range to the clinically functional range over the course of the assessment and continued to improve during TF-CBT. Further, these improvements were maintained at a six-month follow-up. These findings support the effectiveness of TF-CBT in improving trauma-exposed children’s self-concept and underscore the importance of considering how children view themselves after trauma. Clinical implications are discussed.