Download or read book I Can Be Me written by Dianne S. O'Connor and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Has drug or alcohol abuse in your family caused your child to become withdrawn or to act out? • Is addiction in a family member contributing to upset and stress in your child? • Do you want to help your child understand the problem and communicate about his/her feelings? • Do you want to help your child develop healthier coping strategies? I Can Be Me is a helping book for professionals and parents who want to help children of alcoholic parents. Written for children ages 4 to 12, it can be read by a child alone or worked through with a caring adult. Simple line drawings and text speak to children in a language they understand and are based on the real experiences of children with addicted parents. Written from the perspective of children whose parents are addicted to alcohol and various other drugs, this book helps children take off the masks that hide their true feelings and educates them about alcohol or drug abuse in the family. Entertaining drawings and simple text make this book easy to understand and invite children to add their own thoughts and feelings. Children often feel alone in homes where alcoholism or drug abuse is present. I Can Be Me helps children understand more about addiction and realize that they are not to blame for their parents’ problems. Through a series of creative exercises and activities children learn about healthy coping strategies and that they are not alone. Eight separate units make this book an ideal companion to counseling or support group sessions. Parents or counselors can also use a single section to address the unique concerns of an individual child.
Download or read book Healing Your Past written by Kara Lissy and published by Rockridge Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your healing is in your hands with this evidence-based workbook for adult children of alcoholics As the child of a parent or caregiver with an alcohol use disorder, you may still feel the impact of your experiences. Take the next steps on your healing journey with this workbook full of therapeutic techniques, journal prompts, quizzes, and other short exercises and activities to empower adult children of alcoholics. The self-guided approach allows you to work at your own pace as you examine how your experiences have shaped you, learn coping skills, grow in self-love, and build healthy relationships free from the harmful patterns you've experienced. Supportive exercises--Find exercises for combating negative self-talk, setting boundaries, working through guilt or shame, developing intimacy with yourself and others, and more. Proven techniques--Rebuild using effective therapeutic methods including cognitive behavioral therapy, assertiveness training, and other empirically supported tools. Realistic examples--Read stories from other adult children of alcoholics who have had similar experiences to help you remember that it isn't your fault and you're not alone. Discover evidence-based techniques to help you heal in this workbook for adult children of alcoholics.
Download or read book A Life Turned Upside Down My Dad s an Alcoholic written by Mariko Kikuchi and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mariko Kikuchi tells the painful story of her father's alcoholism and her own journey through guilt to understanding her father's illness. She rejects the common belief that family members can and should be forgiven for anything they do, no matter how much harm they cause. This powerful, self-contained autobiographical manga began as a web series that went viral, and inspired a critically acclaimed 2019 film in Japan.
Download or read book Before the Door Closes written by Judith Hall Simon and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mind-altering drugs shackle her father to dementia. As if it were a holding pen for rotting trash, authorities in the nursing home system dispensed him to that dark cell. For the second time in their lives, Judy desperately searches for the answer to free her father. While growing up in an alcoholic environment, she struggled to find what drove him to drink. She was sure if she found it she could cure her father of alcoholism and make everyone happy. Judy finds the liberating key to his present imprisonment, but she cannot turn the lock until she revisits and reveals the shameful secret carefully and faithfully guarded for decades. While doing so, she confronts her fears and emotional wounds carved within a dysfunctional family. That is not enough, though, to rescue him, for the two are now ensnared by an unfamiliar adversary--nursing home neglect and abuse--that Judy must battle every day for her defenseless father. Through it all she longs for him to believe he is and always was important, worthy, loved. Are you a child of an alcoholic? a caregiver of the elderly? a seeker of love's passages? This heart-gripping story shares pain and victory. "Before the Door Closes is very well written and revealing of the pains and triumphs of Judith Hall Simon's journey with an alcoholic father. While reading this book I felt that I was reading the journey of only one person not two. Judith reveals just how overwhelming an alcoholic father can be and how one's identity can be taken over by an alcoholic parent. Her book teaches and touches at the same time. I recommend it to the millions of adult children of alcoholics and to those who love them. Nice work!" ROBERT J. ACKERMAN, Ph.D., author of Perfect Daughters and a co-founder of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics
Download or read book When Your Parent Drinks Too Much written by Eric Ryerson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-help guide for teenagers with alcoholic parents, discussing alcoholism, methods of dealing with it, and where to go for help.
Download or read book Adult Children of Alcoholics written by Janet G. Woititz and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 1990-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovery aids for victims of dysfunctional families and adult children of alcoholic families.
Download or read book Adult Children written by Adult Children of Alcoholics (Association) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the official ACA Fellowship Text that is Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization (ACA WSO) Conference Approved Literature. Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families (ACA) is an independent 12 Step and 12 Tradition anonymous program.
Download or read book Adult Children of Alcoholic Parents written by Kara Lissy LCSW and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your healing is in your hands with this evidence-based workbook for adult children of alcoholics As the child of a parent or caregiver with an alcohol use disorder, you may still feel the impact of your experiences. Take the next steps on your healing journey with this workbook full of therapeutic techniques, journal prompts, quizzes, and other short exercises and activities to empower adult children of alcoholics. The self-guided approach allows you to work at your own pace as you examine how your experiences have shaped you, learn coping skills, grow in self-love, and build healthy relationships free from the harmful patterns you've experienced. Supportive exercises—Find exercises for combating negative self-talk, setting boundaries, working through guilt or shame, developing intimacy with yourself and others, and more. Proven techniques—Rebuild using effective therapeutic methods including cognitive behavioral therapy, assertiveness training, and other empirically supported tools. Realistic examples—Read stories from other adult children of alcoholics who have had similar experiences to help you remember that it isn't your fault and you're not alone. Discover evidence-based techniques to help you heal in this workbook for adult children of alcoholics.
Download or read book The Lived Experience of Being Raised by Single Alcohol Dependent Father written by Shotayo Gabriel Tejuosho Ph.D and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This researched work is titled The Lived Experience of Being Raised by Single Alcohol-Dependent Father. The study illuminates the experiences of the author and the coresearchers. It is hoped that professionals will have a greater understanding of children raised by single alcohol-dependent fathers. Even any alcohol-dependent individual reading this book will find the experience under discussion similar to his or her own. Thus, the book provides experience-based personal accounts of the researchers. The study while answering the research questions will indirectly assist the readers in developing both knowledge and awareness about alcohol-dependent fathers behaviors, attitudes, values, and biases. Consistent with transformation and self-understanding is the saying that states, To know others, one must first know the self. This research piece assisted the researcher and coresearchers to delve into self-dialogue, self-inquiry, and self-discovery, which will also help every reader toward self-evaluation and reassessment of values in life. Thus, the findings in the book will empower the readers toward self-awareness, a wider horizon, and the privilege to explore the significant human experience of being raised by a single alcohol-dependent father. The book is significant to other alcohol-dependent adults raised under the same conditions, as they can potentially learn from the lived experiences of the researcher and coresearchers. Therefore, this study considers the lived experience of single fathers in the context of alcohol dependence.
Download or read book Children of Alcoholic Fathers written by Per-Anders Rydelius and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For Teenagers Living With a Parent Who Abuses Alcohol Drugs written by Edith Lynn Hornik-Beer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Teenagers Living With a Parent Who Abuses Alcohol/Drugs by Edith Lynn Hornik-Beer answers questions about alcoholism asked by teenagers. Included are: What causes alcoholism? Where can I get help? What do I do about the abuse? Should I stay at home? Where can I go? How can anyone expect me to concentrate in school? Why do I fight with my parents even when they are sober?
Download or read book Loving an Adult Child of an Alcoholic written by Douglas Bey and published by M. Evans. This book was released on 2007-05-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The child of an alcoholic develops patterns of behavior during childhood which carry over into adult life. As children they were taught to cover up the family secret and suppress their feelings. No matter what is going on, as adults, when asked how she or he is doing your partner will likely answer "fine." Distrust, fear of abandonment, and sensitivity to criticism are all major issues for your adult child. Recognizing these patterns and changing the ones that cause problems will help you and your partner enjoy a deeper relationship.
Download or read book Alcoholism And The Family written by Saturo Saitoh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The science of the etiology and treatment of alcohol has made notable progress in recent years. Since the early 1970s there have been growing in-roads made concerning the relevance of hereditary factors in alcoholism. This has led to the presentation of various innovative hypotheses in this field. In conjunction with this there has been much discussion and study of the "alcoholic personality" and its possible characteristics. These may be considered the "longitudinal aspects" linked to the transmission of alcoholism.
Download or read book It Will Never Happen to Me written by Claudia Black, Ph.D and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1987-09-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "little green book," as it has come to be known to hundreds of thousands of C.O.A.'s and A.C.O.A.'s, is meant to help the reader understand the roles children in alcoholic families adopt, the problems they face in adulthood as a result, and what they can do to break the pattern of destruction.
Download or read book The Forgotten Children written by R. Margaret Cork and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perfect Daughters written by Robert Ackerman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Perfect Daughters, a pivotal book in the ACoA movement, identifies what differentiates the adult daughters of alcoholics from other women. When this groundbreaking book first appeared over ten years ago, Dr. Ackerman identified behavior patterns shared by daughters of alcoholics. Adult daughters of alcoholics—"perfect daughters" —operate from a base of harsh and limiting views of themselves and the world. Having learned that they must function perfectly in order to avoid unpleasant situations, these women often assume responsibility for the failures of others. They are drawn to chemically dependent men and are more likely to become addicted themselves. More than just a text that identifies these behavior patterns, this book collects the thoughts, feelings and experiences of twelve hundred perfect daughters, offering readers an opportunity to explore their own life's dynamics and thereby heal and grow. This edition contains updated information throughout the text, and completely new material, including chapters on eating disorders and abuse letters from perfect daughters in various stages of recovery, and helpful, affirming suggestions from Dr. Ackerman at the end of every chapter. This book is essential for every one who found validation, hope, courage and support in the pages of the original Perfect Daughters, as well as new readers and every therapist who confronts these issues. Also includes: a comprehensive reference section and complete index.
Download or read book Everything You Need to Know About an Alcoholic Parent written by Nancy Shuker and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 1999-12-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on how to deal with an alcoholic parent and where to go for help.
