Sentences with phrase «of alcoholic families»

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.

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Or that sick, diseased, «SAVED» alcoholic that comes around the corner to fast and wipes out a family of 6, and continues to drink himself into death.

He learns to cope within a blended family, attempts to understand and contend with an abusive and alcoholic stepfather, and later dates and experiments with drugs and alcohol; experiences that are not uncommon within the lives of youth today.

It had nothing to do with Christianity because I was not raised in a family of faith; rather, in a home with an alcoholic, there was an underground but extremely strong message that negative emotions should be avoided at all costs.

The pastor wants to discover these situations within his parish, not only because the alcoholic and his family need help which he may be able to give, but because help rendered at this stage of the illness may save them from years of suffering.

A therapeutic attitude is essential for working redemptively with any troubled person — an alcoholic, a prisoner, a suicidal person, a mental patient, or the families of any of these.

20 The officer in charge of a standard Skid Row corps may refer a converted alcoholic to Family Services, which may provide psychiatric therapy or otherwise aid in the reconciliation of the fFamily Services, which may provide psychiatric therapy or otherwise aid in the reconciliation of the familyfamily.

Included in the advantages mentioned were the natural entree to the family, confidentiality of relationship, the fact that there are no fees involved, that many people naturally take their problems to their pastor, and, most important, that the minister has the dynamic of the Christian faith and fellowship available for helping the alcoholic.

It is ironic that in spite of the new helping resources that are now available, the majority of alcoholics and their families continue to suffer the ravages of the illness.

More significant than the mere number is the fact that the minister, so the survey showed, is often the first person seen for help, outside the family of the alcoholic.

It is probable that a majority of all alcoholics are of the «hidden» variety — individuals who are having serious problems with alcohol but whose behavior is still enough within the bounds of social conformity to allow their alcoholism to be kept secret within the family.

Yet their consumption of alcohol does not affect their families, jobs, finances, health and public behavior as it does in traditional diagnoses of alcoholics.

In fact, the epiphany that came to me on the day over six years ago when I chose to quit drinking was that all my crying to God to help me quit wasn't going to work — because in that moment I was confronted by the awareness that I had to choose whether to quit or not, that there was no heavenly big daddy waiting in the wings to help me do so, that my choice to not drink would not change the fact that I have come from a family of alcoholics and other addictions that may have a genetic component.

For the purpose of this book, an alcoholic is defined as a person who has become dependent on the drug alcohol, consequently drinking more alcohol than the socially accepted norm for his culture; his excessive drinking damages his health and his relation to his family, friends and job.

Of the 698 children born on Kauai in 1955, 201 were in the high - risk category, exposed to various combinations of perinatal trauma, family discord, chronic poverty, and alcoholic, under - educated, or mentally disturbed parentOf the 698 children born on Kauai in 1955, 201 were in the high - risk category, exposed to various combinations of perinatal trauma, family discord, chronic poverty, and alcoholic, under - educated, or mentally disturbed parentof perinatal trauma, family discord, chronic poverty, and alcoholic, under - educated, or mentally disturbed parents.

Unlike the skid - row «derelicts» who seemed to be the typical homeless in the «60s, the street people today embrace the whole gamut of humanity: the «new poor,» the mentally disabled, evicted families, elderly single people, hoboes, alcoholics, drug addicts, abused spouses, abused young people and cast - off children.

Think of five and one - half million alcoholics and twenty million family members caught in a gigantic web of suffering.

A congregation considering a ministry to alcoholics and their families, for example, might well read the summary of the seminar on «The Pastoral Care Function of the Congregation to the Alcoholic and His Family.»

This is the challenge and the satisfaction of working with the alcoholic and his family.

If the minister is contacted by an alcoholic or the family of one who has been on a prolonged bender, it is crucial to make sure that he gets medical attention.

An under standing of the dynamics involved here is exceedingly important in counseling with families of alcoholics.

The concern of the churches for alcoholics and their families is being shared increasingly by the community as a whole.

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).

6 in Basic Types of Pastoral Counseling; «Enriching Marriage and Family Life,» in Growth Counseling: New Tools for Clergy and Laity, Part 1; Growth Counseling for Marriage Enrichment; Growth Counseling for Mid-Years Couples; and «Alcoholics Anonymous — Our Greatest Resource,» chap.

This is an illustration of a church cooperating with a community agency in a new pattern of service to families of alcoholics.

In short, his ability to implement strategies in all five areas — education, prevention, community outreach, helping alcoholics and their families — will be influenced by the relative presence or absence of the therapeutic attitude.

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.

He brings this orientation to the crisis demand of the immediate situation and to the slow process of growth which is the lifelong business of the alcoholic and his family.

Coming from a family of alcoholics of which I wasn't one, I find any kind of drug addiction a horrible obstruction to a «normal» life.

There are many functional alcoholics that raise families and seemingly live normal lives but we can more easily see the costs of the behavior.

One thing I have learned as well is that growing up in an alcoholic - addicted and codependent family from many generations - I personally NEED more of the emotion based stuff - not a lot, but some.

When I read the descriptions of the rages and mood swings of the alcoholic father, I realized that we had the same thing in our family.

These resources are useful for the person counseling with the family of alcoholics: Pastoral Psychology, Vol.

Marriage counseling for the parents, conjoint family therapy for all the members of the family, or psychotherapy for the disturbed child and the parents at a child guidance clinic — all these can be effective ways of healing the emotional wounds suffered by children in the chaos of the alcoholic home.

The counselor needs to know the mental hospital commitment procedures in his state to help the family of an alcoholic with severe mental disturbance.

The average parish pastor has considerably more opportunities to help members of families of alcoholics, than he has to help alcoholics.

The damage to the children varies, depending on a number of factors — the strength of the nonalcoholic parent, the age of the child at the onset of the most destructive phases of the illness, the nature of the relationship with the alcoholic parent, and the social class level of the family.

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.

As a matter of fact, they often do not, and the pastor does well to keep close to a family even after the alcoholic member has achieved sobriety.

It is for the family what the Big Book of AA is for the alcoholic.

The tone should be that of holding up reality, emphasizing particularly what steps the family intends to take if the alcoholic's self - and other - destructive behavior continues.

In the case of Mrs. R., these include an understanding of the nature of alcoholism (as it eventually became clear that Mr. R. is an alcoholic), the futility of her attempts to coerce him to stop drinking, and the importance of her changing her assumption that any improvement in the family situation is totally dependent on his sobriety.

A psychiatrist, speaking at the Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies, declared: «I've very seldom convinced an alcoholic that he has a disorder until I have convinced the family that he has a disorder.»

Another side of the pastor's opportunity lies in the fact that members of an alcoholic's family often need understanding counsel as much as the alcoholic.

Much of the material in this and subsequent sections of this chapter is adapted from the author's article, «Pastoral Care of the Alcoholic's Family Before Sobriety,» Pastoral Psychology, XIII (April, 1962), 19 - 29.

13 (April, 1962), No. 123, special issue on «Counseling with the Family of the Alcoholic»; John E. Keller, Ministering to Alcoholics, Chapter VI, «Counseling the Spouse,» pp. 124 - 37; Thomas J. Shipp, Helping the Alcoholic and His Family (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1963), Chapter 12, «Helping the Alcoholic's Family,» pp. 120 - 32.

The pastor who has occasion to counsel with such a family will do well to read and absorb the insights of this chapter which was written by alcoholics.

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.&family after sobriety and how they can be met, is in the Big Book, Chapter 9, entitled «The Family Afterwards.&Family Afterwards.»

These persons will have a special entrée to the alcoholic's family and can therefore be of help in relating the family to both the church and to Al - Anon.

If all the troubles in the family of an alcoholic were the direct effects of alcoholism, it would be reasonable to assume that, given a certain period of time after sobriety, most of these troubles would disappear.