Alcohol Use Disorders A Developmental Science Approach to Etiology

Alcohol Use Disorders takes a life-span/developmental approach to understanding the etiologic processes that heighten risk or resilience factors for alcohol use disorders (AUD). Contemporary understanding benefits from thirty years of longitudinal studies that were specifically designed to assess pre-onset origins, predictors of onset, and outcomes through early adulthood. The overriding theme of the volume is that the origins and expression of AUD are best understood within the context of developmental processes and dynamic systems organization and change. Such dynamic systems give rise to diverse pathways that are characterized by multi-finality and equi-finality due to the exchanges among genes, epigenetic processes, and the complexities of the individual organism's experiential world. For some individuals, these dynamic processes lead to risk cumulative or cascade effects that embody adverse childhood experiences that exacerbate risk, predict early onset drinking (or smoking), and are highly likely to lead to AUD during the transitions to adolescence and emerging adulthood. In other cases, protective factors within or outside of the individual's immediate family enable embodiment of normative stress regulatory systems and neural networks that support resilience and prevention of AUD and other addictive behaviors.

Hiram E. Fitzgerald is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and Associate Provost for University Outreach and Engagement at Michigan State University. He has been associated with the Michigan Longitudinal Study for 30 years. His major areas of research include the study of infant and family development in community contexts, the impact of fathers on early child development, 0-5 age boys and risk, the etiology of alcoholism, implementation of systemic community models of organizational process and change, and broad issues related to the scholarship of engagement.

Leon I. Putter is a clinical psychologist working in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. He is the Project Director of the Michigan Longitudinal Study where he has worked for 22 years. Current research interests include the development of addictions with an emphasis on risk factors associated with its development, resilience in deviating from expected pathways, and the effects of recovery status of parental alcohol problems on the functioning of children and their parents; Child sexual abuse; Psychotherapy with children, adults, couples, and families.

Part I. Alcohol Use Disorders: Perspectives from Developmental Psychopathology and Developmental Science

Chapter 1. Developmental Science, Alcohol Use Disorders and the Risk-Resilience Continuum
Leon Puttler, Robert A. Zucker, and Hiram E. Fitzgerald

Chapter 2. A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Substance Use: Illustrations from the Study of Child Maltreatment
Dante Cicchetti and Fred Rogosch

Chapter 3. Multifinality, Equifinality and the Heterogeneity of Alcoholism.
Andrea Hussong, Drew Rothenberg, Ruth K. Smith, and Maleeha Haroon

Part II. Alcohol Use Disorders: Developmental Neurobiology and Early Organization of Risk

Chapter 4. A Developmental Perspective on the Genetic Basis of Substance Use and Abuse
Elisa Trucoo, Gabriel L. Schlomer, and Brian Hicks

Chapter 5. Alcohol Used Disorder: Role of Epigenetics
Igor Ponomarev

Chapter 6: Brain Functional Contributors to Vulnerability for Substance Abuse:
Mary M. Heitzeg

Part III. Alcohol Use Disorders: Developmental Transitions from Infancy to Adolescence

Chapter 7. Etiological processes for substance use disorders beginning in infancy
Rena D. Eiden

Chapter 8. Sleep Problems during the Preschool Years and Beyond as a Marker of Risk and Resilience in Substance Use?
Maria Wong

Chapter 9. Self-regulation, Behavioral Inhibition, and Risk for Alcoholism and Substance Use Disorders.
Joel T. Nigg

Chapter 10: A Framework for Studying Parental Socialization of Child and Adolescent Substance Use.
John Donovan

Chapter 11: Alcohol and Youth: Evaluations of Developmental Impact
Guadalupe A. Bacio, Ty Brumback and Sandra A. Brown

Part IV. Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders: Developmental Transitions from Adolescence to Emergent Adulthood

Chapter12: Substance Use and Abuse during Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood are Developmental Phenomena: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations.
John Schulenberg, Julie Maslowsky, and Justin Jager

Chapter 13. Who Is Using Alternative Tobacco Products and Why? Research on Adolescents and Young Adults
Alexandra Loukas and Deepti Agarwal

Chapter 14. Developmental Perspectives on Cigarette Smoking: Findings from the IU Smoking Survey
Laurie Chassin, Clark Presson, Jonathan T. Macy and Steven J. Sherman

Chapter 15: Alcohol Use and Consequences across Developmental Transitions during College and Beyond
James R. Ashenhurst and Kim Fromme

Chapter 16. Developmental Transitions and College Binge Drinking: Why Parents Still Matter.
Michael Ichiyama, Kayla Swart, Annie Wescott, Sarah Harrison, and Kelly Birch

Chapter 17. Personality Processes Related to the Development and Resolution of Alcohol Use Disorders: A Long and Continually Evolving Story
Kenneth Sher, Andrew Littlefield, and Matthew Lee

Part V. Alcohol Use Disorders and Marital Relationships

Chapter 18: Developmental Transitions and Emergent Causative Influences: Intimacy, Influence, and Alcohol Problems over the Early Years of Marriage.
Ash Levitt and Kenneth Leonard

Chapter 19: Social Psychology of Alcohol Involvement, Marital Dissolution, and Marital Interaction Processes across Multiple Time Scales
James A. Cranford and Catharine E. Fairbarn

Part VI. Developmental Designs: Methodological and Statistical Innovations

Chapter 20. Integrative Data Analysis from a Unifying Research Synthesis Perspective
Eun-Young Mun, and Anne E. Ray

Chapter 21. New Statistical Methods Inspired by Data Collected from Alcohol and Substance Abuse Research.
Anne Buu and Runze Li

Index