Sentences with phrase «alcoholic family»

A conceptual model for the development of externalizing behavior problems among kindergarten children of alcoholic families.

The dependable supply of emotional nutrition which children need to grow strong, resilient personalities is not available in most alcoholic families.

«In alcoholic families, for instance, kids take on different roles — be it the scapegoat, caretaker, or clown — and if they are being validated in that role, then they bring it to school, where they suck up all the energy in the class and deprive others of quality learning time.»

Validity issues with the Family Environment Scale: psychometric resolution and research application with alcoholic families.

I have personal experience in the areas of; grief, alcoholic family dynamics, codependency, al - anon, surviving a parent's suicide, surviving marital affairs, and teen pregnancy.

«These are not alcoholic families, but families that have more laissez - faire attitudes about underage drinking.

Frequently cast as a working - class hard man, British actor Ray Winstone gained his first dose of international recognition for his brutal portrayal of an abusive, alcoholic family patriarch in Gary Oldman's Nil by Mouth (1997).

Parent - child communication within alcoholic families is often characterized as excessively critical, lacking warmth, and as inattentive to children's needs and feelings (Black, Bucky & Wilder - Padilla, 1986; Jones & Houts, 1992).

Validity issues with the Family Environment Scale: Psychometric resolution and research application with alcoholic families

He lamented about coming from an alcoholic family and how he was a prisoner to it.

There are at least four factors in the alcoholic family which are disturbing to children and teen - agers: 24.

A minister recently wrote the editors of Changes, a magazine for adult children of alcoholics, to confess, «I have realized that throughout my ministry I have accepted calls to congregations that replicate the dynamics of the alcoholic family in which I was raised.

Rather than thinking of the problems of an alcoholic family as entirely the effects of alcoholism, it is well to remember that an inadequate marital adjustment can be as much a cause as an effect of inebriety.

One of the most helpful descriptions of the marital problems that beset the alcoholic family after sobriety and how they can be met, is in the Big Book, Chapter 9, entitled «The Family Afterwards.»

Amid the failing state Senate Democrats» peace deal, an anonymous Democratic state lawmaker compared the Senate Republicans to an alcoholic family, saying: «They fight it out behind closed doors and then come out in public, straighten their ties, comb their hair and try to pretend it's not happening.»

They're like an alcoholic family.

And most of my paranoia was a re-creation of the traumas I had experienced as an unwanted little girl, growing up in an alcoholic family.

Olivia Laing grew up in an alcoholic family herself.

Sue talked about coming from a violent and alcoholic family, which led to her developing an addiction.

28 years experience working with adult history of childhood trauma, alcoholic families, depression / anxiety, life transitions, and relationship issues.

Children and Marital Conflict: the Impact of Family Dispute and Resolution by Cummings and Davies The Alcoholic Family by Steinglass, Bennett, Wolin, and Reiss Families in Perpetual Crisis by Kagan and Schlosberg

Children are molded by the alcoholic family to be overreponsible (calm, efficient, but lonely and filled with self doubt) or underresponsible (filled with rage, demanding constant care and praise, but filled with violent resentment towards anyone that helps them).

Children are molded by the alcoholic family to be either over-responsible (calm, efficient, but lonely and filled with self doubt) or under - responsible (filled with rage, demanding constant care and praise, but filled with violent resentment towards anyone that helps them).

In their landmark book, The Responsibility Trap: A Blueprint for Treating the Alcoholic Family, Claudia Bepko and Jo Ann Krestan address the systemic, circular processes that results from the interaction of symptom and system.

As demonstrated in this video and the Five Generation Genogram of the playwright Eugene O'Neill, the alcoholic family represents a systemic, reciprocal, circular, interactive process of power, autonomy and dependence in which no family member is spared psychological damage and distress.

For future study; The Responsibility Trap: A Blueprint for Treating the Alcoholic Family (Bepko and Krestan, 1985) in which the family systems model of treatment was first elaborated.

In The Responsibility Trap: A Blueprint for Treating the Alcoholic Family, Claudia Bepko and Jo Ann Krestan introduced three key family systems concepts central to the understanding and treatment of addiction:

In their book, The Alcoholic Family in Recovery: A Developmental Model, Stephanie Brown and Virginia Lewis state there are four stages that individuals, couples, and families affected by alcoholism pass through; 1) drinking, 2) transition, 3) early recovery, and 4) ongoing recovery.