Sober Coaching Your Toxic Teen: An Interactive Guide for Teaching Parents and Primary Caregivers How to Manage a Drug Crisis

by Shelly Marshall

Traditionally, professionals have offered treatment to the family of their young clients by saying the parent is "sick" and needs to be treated. the proof offered for this assessment is that the child has a drug or alcohol problem. But we know that alcoholism and addiction is a disease-- a brain chemistry disorder and it isn't caused by "bad" parenting. Any method that alienates parents (guilt and shame) and gives the young person someone to blame,...

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967491576
• ISBN13: 9780967491578
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Day By Day, Recovery Resources
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.0" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 19 years and up