Families, alcoholism, and recovery: Ten stories

By Celia Dulfano

This book offers mental health professionals an updated and expanded guide for applying family therapy approaches to the treatment of alcoholism. It shows how alcoholism can impair the family's normal functioning and growth, offers advice for helping individual family members to resume their specific roles and responsibilities and so begin healthy development. In addition, this revised version includes new insights on contending with such issues as violence, sexual abuse, and incest, and it reveals new findings on the long-term effects on children growing up in families with alcoholics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894861484
• ISBN13: 9780894861482
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Hazelden Information & Educational Services
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 1.1"