Kinship Ties

Attachment Relationships that Promote Resilience in African American Adult Children of Alcoholics

Bibliographic Data

ID2501131
AuthorsJ C Hall (0000-0002-9455-6522, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume8
Issue1
Pages130-140
Publication date2007-04-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAdvances in Social Work (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1527-8565 • E-ISSN: 2331-4125
PublisherIUPUI University Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18060/136
OpenAlexW2117609725
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

For many African Americans, the extended family has been the source of strength, resilience, and survival. Although changes in African American families, like changes in all families in the United States that have diluted the importance of kinship ties, many African Americans continue to place a high value on extended family members. Children of Africans and communities of African descent traditionally interact with multiple caregivers, consisting of kin, and fictive kin.Utilizing both attachment theory and risk and resilience literature, this paper discusses ways to better understand the resilient nature of African American families and how multiple attachment relationships assist at-risk African American children, specifically adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs

African american · Developmental psychology · Ethnology · Extended family · Family ties · Fictive kinship · Genealogy · Kinship · Psychological resilience · Sociology · Anthropology · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child Welfare and Adoption · History · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Social Psychology

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