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Objectives: It is known that alcoholics drink when there was no appropriate coping skill to stress. It is often found that female alcoholics drink as the ways of coping under the stressful situation more than male alcoholics do. The purpose of this study was to identify stress and coping behavior of female alcoholics. Method: Participants were 73 female alcoholics who were admitted 11 alcohol treatment hospitals. Data were collected using a self-administered report. Results: Main findings are as follows. First, the mean of stress was 41.75 and the major stress areas of female alcoholics are physical health. Second, female alcoholics had stress on family relationship and conflicts rather than social relationship and participation. Third, most used coping behavior of female alcoholics was wishful thinking centered coping. Finally, it is found that the emotion-focused coping was not effective on the reducing the stress of the female alcoholics. Conclusion: The present study suggest that the needs for the program development in treatment and rehabilitation for focusing the stress and coping of female alcoholics.