This may be accomplished by using the same methods as those described in Chapter 8 for bringing the hidden
alcoholic out of hiding.
It is essential that more effective ways be found of bringing the hidden
alcoholics out of hiding to be helped.
Not exact matches
The clergyman is in a strategic position to attract the
hidden alcoholic out of his dark closet
of fear and despair.
In addition to its broad target — reaching the entire congregation with a message that will help them understand alcoholism — the church has a number
of more limited and strategic target groups: teen - agers and pre-teens who are making or are about to make decisions about alcohol; parents who are searching for ways to prepare their children to cope constructively with alcohol and to avoid alcoholism;
alcoholics and their families who need help but are afraid to come
out of hiding (see Chapter 8).
V / hen the spouse
of an
alcoholic ventures
out of hiding, it is important that she 9.
While others act and react to the
alcoholic, this youngster seeks to stay
out of harm's way by
hiding, isolating herself, and fading into the woodwork.
The various facets
of the clergyman's opportunity in helping the family could be summarized as follows: (a) Bringing the
hidden alcoholic's family
out of hiding.