Sentences with phrase «patterns of alcoholism»

For therapy to be effective with the alcoholic couple, it must be directive, psychoeducational and provide concrete steps that can be taken by both partners to change the patterns of alcoholism that impact them.

This chapter provides a working definition of alcoholism, then describes the types and developmental pattern of alcoholism, the problem of the woman alcoholic, and the size and seriousness of the problem.

It is essential that we know something of the developmental pattern of alcoholism.

Another useful intervention is the use of a genogram to show the couple the pattern of alcoholism and other illness in the family and how it affects their relationship.

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This may mean that the traditional con trols which tended to keep Jews from developing alcoholism are weakening as Jews become increasingly integrated into the mainstream of American life, including its drinking patterns.

In her review of the professional literature on alcoholism and marriage, Margaret Bailey concludes: «Most students of the problem have found in some or all of their cases this interactive pattern of the dependent, inadequate alcoholic male married to a dominating woman who is usually seen as maintaining a semblance of adequacy only at his expense.»

A candid look at America's drinking patterns reveals a measure of truth in the quip, «If alcoholism is a sickness, a lot of people are trying to catch it.»

This was the accepted social pattern among some frontier groups, and although there was a great deal of this kind of drunkenness, there was probably less alcoholism than there is today.

Replacing the holy wars of the Old World have been religious patterns that left few dead bodies, though competitive denominational missionaries in many a new suburb have come down with ulcers, heart disease, endocrine disturbances, alcoholism arid, as they say, «other specifically Christian diseases» in their scrambles.

And so we found a variant in one of the GABA receptors [that] is associated with alcoholism, and this fits in with some of the brain wave pattern activity that it looks like alcoholism [and] is linked to disinhibition, so [it's] a problem with the inhibition of brain waves that people should generally have.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines binge drinking as a pattern of drinking that brings a person's blood alcohol concentration to 0.08 or above.

«Alcoholism is best thought of as a cause, not a consequence, of personality disorder» (The Natural History of Alcoholism: Causes, Patterns, and Paths to Recovery, Dr G Vaillant, 1983).

While other developmental factors can lead to a role - reversal relationship (such as parental alcoholism), the symptomatic presence in «parental alienation» of both a role - reversal relationship and borderline personality organization in the parent suggests the possible presence of sexual abuse «source code» in the internal working models of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent's attachment system that was inserted into the trans - generational transmission of attachment patterns (Benoit & Parker, 1994; Bretherton, 1990; Jacobvitz, Morgan, Kretchmar, & Morgan, 1991).