The Alcoholic family
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The Alcoholic family
Basic Books, c1987
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Note
Bibliography: p. 365-371
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This pathbreaking book paints a radical new picture of alcoholism, offering powerful evidence that most chronic alcoholics live out their lives in intact, relatively quiet family environments. The authors show, however, that living in an alcoholic familyin which alcoholism is the central theme around which family life is organizedhas profound effects on family members both drinkers and nondrinkers.
Table of Contents
A Family Systems Approach To Alcoholism Setting the Stage: The Core Issues Prevalence and Diagnosis: The Family Perspective * The Life History Model Of The Alcoholic Family Regulating Behavior in the Alcoholic Family Growth and Development in the Alcoholic Family * The Early Phase Of Development Developing an Alcoholic Family Identity * The Middle Phase Of Development The Sobriety-Intoxication Cycle: Family Problem-Solving and Alcoholic Behavior Daily Routines as Regulators of Home Life Alcoholism and Family Ritual Disruption Late-Phase Options for the Alcoholic Family The Intergenerational Transmission of Alcoholism * Treating The Alcoholic Family Family Therapy Approaches to Alcoholism
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