Sentences with phrase «alcoholic accept help»

The family's fundamental contributions to helping the alcoholic accept help from AA or any other treatment resource consist of releasing him, as described previously, and of accepting the sickness conception themselves.

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It does this by keeping the initiative with him throughout the process, by making him feel accepted in a group, by respecting his rights as an adult to think and do what he himself wants to (including getting drunk), and by giving him a sense of unique usefulness in helping other alcoholics.

Such short - term therapy aims not at deep underlying problems, but at helping the person do things that will improve his chances of achieving productive sobriety — things such as accepting the fact that he is an alcoholic, learning how to face and handle his fears and resentments constructively, changing his ways of relating so that the guilt - isolation - anger spiral is not triggered so often.

Subsumed under this goal are four operational objectives which may be seen as overlapping stages of treatment: Helping the alcoholic (a) to accept the fact that his drinking is a problem with which he needs help; (b) to obtain, medical treatment; (c) to interrupt the addictive cycle and keep it interrupted by learning to avoid the first drink; (d) to achieve a re-synthesis of his life without alcohol.

Looking more closely at the first of these categories, it is well for the clergyman to remember that many alcoholics are in serious physical condition by the time they are ready to accept help.

Any counselor will save himself a lot of frustration if he remembers this, rather than assuming that the alcoholic could accept help if he really wanted to.

Thinking perhaps of how they once condemned alcoholics instead of trying to accept and help them, they have become open to discussions and not infrequently have invited homosexual persons to speak.

When he accepts this point of view he is in a position to receive help from other alcoholics and from the Higher Power — God (Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking [New York: Prentice - Hall, Inc., 1952], p. 230; bold face added).

In dealing with the resistant alcoholic, it is essential for the counselor to accept the person's right not to accept help.

Working to help open local hospitals to accept alcoholics as any other sick person is an important form of community outreach.

The recognition by the helping person that he has a basic kinship with the alcoholic, that he is not better but only luckier that his symptoms are different, helps him to accept the alcoholic without condescension.

The danger is that the counselor will use it to avoid his responsibility which is to discover, stimulate, and mobilize the alcoholic's latent motivation toward accepting help.

The last of these levels is particularly important because it will deal with the problem of why the alcoholic is usually unable to accept help early in the development of his sickness.

In some cases, the pastor's acceptance of the alcoholic's right and freedom not to accept help actually is a dynamic factor in enabling the alcoholic to accept help.

But, at the same time, a church should be engaged in some one experimental approach by which it seeks to develop (1) ways of bringing a unique service to the helping o ~ alcoholics and their families, and / or (2) new ways of reaching and motivating hidden alcoholics to accept help.