Sentences with phrase «understands alcoholism»

To answer this question accurately, the minister may need to refer the alcoholic to a physician or psychotherapist who understands alcoholism and who can evaluate the person's need for particular therapies.

A physician who does not understand alcoholism and AA can, by his attitudes, unwittingly push the person deeper into his addiction and away from the help he desperately needs.

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).

We can use this to understand alcoholism and related conditions.

Not exact matches

It's clear from your posting that you know almost nothing about alcoholism, and likely have never cared or attempted to understand someone who is an alcoholic.

I have instructed the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to: Appoint an advisory committee on alcoholism; establish in the Public Health Service a center for research on the cause, prevention, control, and treatment of alcoholism; develop an educational program in order to foster public understanding based on scientific fact; work with public and private agencies on the state and local level, to include this disease in a comprehensive health program.

Because of deeper understanding of personality, the Emmanuel therapy was beamed more accurately at the roots of alcoholism than is the AA therapy.

From insight gained through analyses of alcoholics, Worcester arrived at a profound understanding of alcoholism:

By his own public statements and also through his role of helping to develop an alcoholism education emphasis for the youth and adults in his church school, the minister helps to plant the seeds of understanding of the nature and treatment of alcoholism.

That an adequate conception and understanding of alcoholism is a necessity in fashioning an effective therapy.

Further, it will give the minister a greater understanding of both AA and of alcoholism.

In its understanding of the psychodynamics of alcoholism and its incorporation of psychoanalytic insights and methods, this approach was decades ahead of its time.

In order to counsel alcoholics with any degree of effectiveness, one must have a basic understanding of alcoholism and of AA.

Its superiority lay in its splendid conception of alcoholism and its understanding of the psychodynamics of human behavior.

They recognize that AA, for instance, is tailor - made to meet the stresses and strains of alcoholism, and they accept the fact that alcoholism, as Harry Emerson Fosdick has put it, is like a stained - glass window in that it can best be seen and understood from the inside.

If you want a thorough review of the place religion occupies in alcoholism recovery, I feel Dr. Howard Clinebell has done the job best in his Understanding and Counseling Persons with Alcohol, Drug, and Behavioral Addictions, supra.

I myself will never adopt an understanding that the power to overcome «disease» or sin or «sickness» or whatever alcoholism is, can be received from, or operated with, «something» or «somebody» or a «power greater than myself» or a «higher power» or a «group» or a light bulb, chair, bulldozer, goddess, doorknob, radiator or any of the other «absurd names for God» (as Rev. Sam Shoemaker, our «cofounder» described them).

... Alcoholism is caused by biochemical / neurophysiological abnormalities that are passed down from one generation to the next or, in some cases, acquired through heavy or prolonged drinking (Ketcham, et al., Beyond the Influence: Understanding and Defeating Alcoholism [New York: Bantam Books, 2000], p. 46).

Through these channels, the churches have an unrivaled opportunity to help develop understanding of alcoholism at the grass roots of our population.

This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined, by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a culture in which there is both pressure to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely to develop trouble than will most other people.»

Within this frame of reference, decisions about all matters including alcoholism can be made, and an understanding of the congregation's mission to the burdened, including the alcoholic, can be gained.

We look to the member churches of the National Council to encourage the establishment and maintenance of clinics and other appropriate therapeutic facilities when competently conducted, for the victims of alcoholism... - The churches should disseminate such sound information as is now available concerning the understanding and counseling of persons with alcohol problems.

Therefore, these differences must be taken into account both in the understanding of the sociocultural factors in the causation of alcoholism and in its prevention.

The thesis stated above, that alcohol provides a pseudo-satisfaction for the alcoholic's religious needs, is so fundamental to an understanding of both alcoholism and any religious approach to it, that it will be discussed at some length in Chapter 6.

An understanding of the distinctive contribution of a religious approach to alcoholism is dependent on insight into what might be called the vertical dimension of the alcoholic's problem.

The educational impact of this program on the congregations — in terms of their understanding of alcoholism and their acceptance of alcoholics — has been a valuable by - product.

Both the ethical and the therapeutic approaches to the problem of alcoholism must be based on an understanding of alcohol, drinking, and the physiology and psychology of the human being.

Because of this, existential anxiety is an important consideration for the understanding of alcoholism.

An understanding of any religious approach to alcoholism must include the recognition that, for the alcoholic, religion and alcohol often are functionally interchangeable.

Phase two of alcoholism education should move beyond head understanding to heart understanding of the persons suffering from the problem.

Alcoholism education aimed at developing a climate of understanding and acceptance.

The wife's understanding of alcoholism provides a solid foundation for realistic decisions and attitudes on her part.

They seek to help the person understand the problem of alcoholism, AA, and how he may help get his alcoholic mate into AA.

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.

In addition, an understanding of the dynamics of the interpersonal relationships in the alcoholic's family and the effects of alcoholism on these relationships is important.

Trauma is what most don't understand, In fact studies point to «childhood trauma» as responsible for over 80 % of all chaos in society; drug addition, alcoholism, lawlessness...

One can understand the depth and complexity of alcoholism, and therefore its prevention, by seeing it as a «tragic response to areas of tragedy in our culture.»

Bierut: I am trained as a psychiatrist, so I have my medical degree and specialized training in psychiatric disorders such as alcoholism, depression, schizophrenia, and I also have training in genetics so to understand how illnesses are transmitted through families, and so we are trying to look at how mental illnesses and addictions are transmitted in families and understand the underlying genetic causes of them.

Bierut: With this knowledge, I think, we are starting to understand some of the basic biologic pathways that are leading to alcoholism.

Understanding the neurological basis of alcoholism and other addictions is critical to treating these diseases.

Could they help people with depression, schizophrenia or alcoholism understand their illness?

Through the generous support of individual, corporate, and public donors, The Scripps Research Institute has already made major strides toward understanding and treating alcoholism and addiction.

The research was carried out at Tel Aviv University and the University of California - San Francisco and will continue, with a focus on obtaining a better understanding of the brain and the biological mechanisms that underlie memory processes that cause vulnerability to alcoholism — and perhaps drug use — in some individuals.

Years ago I had a client who told me that she spent so much time in her life beating herself up for struggling with alcoholism and not understanding her purpose.

Completely hammered and trying to conceal that they have a mild understanding of what's going on, the group decides to stick to the plan of completing the crawl in order to not draw attention and possibly die of something other than alcoholism.

In man, alcoholism and certain genetic conditions predispose to pancreatitis, but much is not understood about the disease.

And that after all, an artist is a man with his work to do...» Such Romantic ideas about the link between drunkenness and continuing creativity have been made less credible since the 20th century by widespread acceptance of «alcoholism» as a disease, and then by increased understanding of the nature of alcohol dependency.

I am free from the trap of alcoholism for today as long as I don't take a drink, am willing (although not always able) to be honest with myself and others, make a conscious connection with a higher power of my understanding, and am willing to make amends for the problems I create when I fall short of rigorous honesty.

(If you understand that sentence, you might be an alcoholic...) I was trapped in a web of lies that I thought were true because I was too afraid to face my alcoholism and angry with myself for what I thought just a weakness.

You have to understand, and this was undeniably real for me: alcoholism is a progressive disease.