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.

Part I. Alcohol Use Disorders: Perspectives from Developmental Psychopathology and Developmental ScienceChapter 1. Developmental Science, Alcohol Use Disorders and the Risk-Resilience ContinuumLeon Puttler, Robert A. Zucker, and Hiram E. FitzgeraldChapter 2. A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Substance Use: Illustrations from the Study of Child MaltreatmentDante Cicchetti and Fred RogoschChapter 3. Multifinality, Equifinality and the Heterogeneity of Alcoholism.Andrea Hussong, Drew Rothenberg, Ruth K. Smith, and Maleeha HaroonPart II. Alcohol Use Disorders: Developmental Neurobiology and Early Organization of RiskChapter 4. A Developmental Perspective on the Genetic Basis of Substance Use and AbuseElisa Trucoo, Gabriel L. Schlomer, and Brian HicksChapter 5. Alcohol Used Disorder: Role of EpigeneticsIgor PonomarevChapter 6: Brain Functional Contributors to Vulnerability for Substance Abuse:Mary M. HeitzegPart III. Alcohol Use Disorders: Developmental Transitions from Infancy to AdolescenceChapter 7. Etiological processes for substance use disorders beginning in infancyRena D. EidenChapter 8. Sleep Problems during the Preschool Years and Beyond as a Marker of Risk and Resilience in Substance Use?Maria WongChapter 9. Self-regulation, Behavioral Inhibition, and Risk for Alcoholism and Substance Use Disorders.Joel T. NiggChapter 10: A Framework for Studying Parental Socialization of Child and Adolescent Substance Use.John DonovanChapter 11: Alcohol and Youth: Evaluations of Developmental ImpactGuadalupe A. Bacio, Ty Brumback and Sandra A. BrownPart IV. Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders: Developmental Transitions from Adolescence to Emergent AdulthoodChapter12: Substance Use and Abuse during Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood are Developmental Phenomena: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations.John Schulenberg, Julie Maslowsky, and Justin JagerChapter 13. Who Is Using Alternative Tobacco Products and Why? Research on Adolescents and Young AdultsAlexandra Loukas and Deepti AgarwalChapter 14. Developmental Perspectives on Cigarette Smoking: Findings from the IU Smoking SurveyLaurie Chassin, Clark Presson, Jonathan T. Macy and Steven J. ShermanChapter 15: Alcohol Use and Consequences across Developmental Transitions during College and BeyondJames R. Ashenhurst and Kim FrommeChapter 16. Developmental Transitions and College Binge Drinking: Why Parents Still Matter.Michael Ichiyama, Kayla Swart, Annie Wescott, Sarah Harrison, and Kelly BirchChapter 17. Personality Processes Related to the Development and Resolution of Alcohol Use Disorders: A Long and Continually Evolving StoryKenneth Sher, Andrew Littlefield, and Matthew LeePart V. Alcohol Use Disorders and Marital RelationshipsChapter 18: Developmental Transitions and Emergent Causative Influences: Intimacy, Influence, and Alcohol Problems over the Early Years of Marriage.Ash Levitt and Kenneth LeonardChapter 19: Social Psychology of Alcohol Involvement, Marital Dissolution, and Marital Interaction Processes across Multiple Time ScalesJames A. Cranford and Catharine E. FairbarnPart VI. Developmental Designs: Methodological and Statistical InnovationsChapter 20. Integrative Data Analysis from a Unifying Research Synthesis PerspectiveEun-Young Mun, and Anne E. RayChapter 21. New Statistical Methods Inspired by Data Collected from Alcohol and Substance Abuse Research.Anne Buu and Runze LiIndex