The articles included in this book explore aggression and violence associated with substance abuse; differential diagnosis of physiological, psychiatric, and sociocultural conditions associated with aggression and substance abuse; alcohol and family violence; and the dynamics and treatment of spouse battering and chemical dependency. Other topics examined here include abuse in adult children of substance dependents; alcoholism and sex abuse in the family; prevention and treatment strategies associated with children at risk; child maltreatment and alcohol abuse; adult self- injury as a response to childhood abuse; and therapeutic and professional boundary issues.