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Development and Validation of an Adult Children of Alcoholics Tool

Southwest Texas State University

Raymond C. Hawkins, II

Austin Regional Clinic

We describe the development and validation of a 25-item Adult Children of Alcoholics Tool (ACAT) in three separate studies: (a) The ACAT was administered to a normative student sample and a clinical outpatient sample to develop a scale with satisfactory reliability and criterion validity; (b) these findings were replicated with a sample of social work students and another clinical sample, providing further construct validation with other measures of current mental health functioning (e.g., depression, internalized shame), and family of origin characteristics; (c) using a third student sample, the ACATwas found to be significantly correlated with the Adult Children of Alcoholics Index, suggesting measurement of a similar but not identical construct. We discuss the implications of using the ACAT in social work practice as a measure of internalized negative attributes associated with familial alcoholism, particularly, the need to determine the cross-cultural generalizability of the "adult children of alcoholics" syndrome.

Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 5, No. 3, 317-339 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/104973159500500305


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