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Status:Available Detachment & Enabling
Published: 1985
Two short inspirational texts in one book for loved ones of addicted people. Provide solace and steps for action... Details >>
Status:Available I'll Quit Tomorrow - A Practical Guide to Alcoholism Treatment (Revised)
Published: 1990
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Status:Available A Teenager's Guide to Living With an Alcoholic Parent
Published: 1984
This comprehensive guide for young people answers questions about parental addiction and discusses issues such as dating, schoolwork, expression of feelings, and responsibilities while coping with alcoholism at home... Details >>
Status:Available Adult Children of Alcoholics
Published: 1983
Offers knowledge and understanding of what it means to be the child of an alcoholic, and how this process evolves over time. Can be used as a self-help or clinical guide in working toward individual growth & as a basis for discussion groups of Adult Child.. Details >>
Status:Available An Adult Child's Guide To What's "Normal"
Published: 1990
You have begun to deal with the pain and trauma of being raised in a dysfunctional family and now you are ready to lead a healthy life. Do you know what healthy people do? A practical guide to living a healthy life... Details >>
Status:Available After the Tears: Reclaiming the Personal Losses of Childhood
Published: 1986
Guidance for helping adult children of alcoholics work through grief, loss, and depression. For any and all adult children who want to know if there's life after alcoholism in their family... Details >>
Status:Available Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism
Published: 1965
Powerful articles by noted doctors & counselors examine the adverse effects alcoholism has on the family & friends of alcoholics. Each writer emphasizes the importance of helping these other victims of the disease, & the positive nature of the help availa.. Details >>
Status:Available Al-Anon's Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions
Published: 1981
Thousands of people around the world have been restored to joyful living by practicing the principles embodied in Al-Anon's Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, which are readily adapted to healing personal relationships... Details >>
Status:Available Alateen - Hope for Children of Alcoholics
Published: 1973
The story of Alateen, which is a part of the Al-Anon Family Groups, the fellowship of people whose lives are being or have been affected by close contact with a problem drinker. It tells of their fears, their problems, their hopes, and their achievements.. Details >>
Status:Available Alateen - A Day At A Time
Published: 1983
The message of this collection of thoughts is simple: "Yesterday is gone and tomorrow isn't here, so I can only live for today." If we take time to think about that, we won't have time for past regrets and worries about the future... Details >>
Status:Available Alcoholism: The Genetic Inheritance
Published: 2002
Addresses the disease concept of alcoholism, known here as Jellinek's disease, and provides us with a simple understanding of how alcoholism affects our lives biochemically, neurologically, politically, and socially... Details >>
Status:Available Alcoholism: The Genetic Inheritance (Hardcover)
Published: 1988
Addresses the disease concept of alcoholism, known here as Jellinek's disease, and provides us with a simple understanding of how alcoholism affects our lives biochemically, neurologically, politically, and socially... Details >>
Status:Available An Elephant in the Living Room
Published: 1984
For children who are living in families with addiction. Designed to help kids improve relationships w/ parents and siblings, recognize & express feelings, and develop practical ways to cope... Details >>
Status:Available A Guide to Family Intervention
Published: 1987
Presents the process of confronting the addict with the problem of their addiction. Addresses the family's fears, overcoming denial, preparation, and attitude. Besides advising the family, there is a section for the mediating therapist who will handle t.. Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 07/15/2009) As We Understood
Published: 1985
Al-Anon members share their understanding of prayer, letting go, fellowship, meditation, a Higher Power, and spiritual awakening... Details >>
Status:Available Beyond the Illusion: Choices for Children of Alcoholism
Published: 1989
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Status:Available Breaking the Cycle of Addiction: A Parent's Guide to Raising Healthy Kids
Published: 1987
This guide teaches parents, who were themselves raised by addicted parents, how to raise their kids to be healthy, and how to parent the child within themselves. To break the cycle of addiction, parents need to learn what is to be "child-conscious"... Details >>
Status:Available Courage To Be Me (Alateen)
Published: 1996
A collection of sharings and artwork from Alateen members all over the world... Details >>
Status:Available Courage to Change in Al-Anon One Day at a Time II
Published: 1992
Daily reader... Details >>
Status:Available Drug Addiction: Learn About It Before Your Kids Do!
Published: 1987
Dr Andre shows us addiction, with a specialized focus on cocaine, and how it takes hold of its victims. We learn about addiction and what it does to us physically, about intervention, the hospitalization process, the treatment center and the follow-up in.. Details >>
Status:Available Helping the Alcoholic and His Family
Published: 1963
For pastors, contains practical explanations of problems dealing with alcoholism, offers insight into the conditions, characteristics, and motivations of the alcoholic and gives helpful direction in working with members of the alcoholic's family. Addresse.. Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 07/15/2009) Hope For Today
Published: 2002
A collection or daily thoughts & meditations from Alanon members... Details >>
Status:Available How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics
Published: 1995
Al-Anon's "basic book" reflects the shared wisdom of Al-Anon members today. The most comprehensive book on Al-Anon is excellent for personal and meeting study... Details >>
Status:Available I'll Quit Tomorrow - A Practical Guide to Alcoholism Treatment
Published: 1990
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Status:Available Marriage on the Rocks: Learning to Live with Yourself and an Alcoholic
Published: 1979
Millions of women live with alcoholics; it's a private hell but a public problem. Not only can you live with an alcoholic, you can be happy and productive no matter what he does... Details >>
Status:Available Intervention: A Step-by-Step Guide for Families and Friends of Chemically Dependent Persons
Published: 1998
Teaches people how to help chemically dependent people and how to do it right. Johnson shows how addiction affects those around the addict- spouses, children, neighbors, and co-workers. .. Details >>
Status:Available It Will Never Happen To Me!
Published: 1981
Meant to help the reader understand the roles children in alcoholic families adopt, the problems they face in adulthood as a result, and what they can do to break the pattern of destruction... Details >>
Status:Available It Will Never Happen To Me!
Published: 1981
Helps the reader understand the roles children in alcoholic families adopt, the problems they face in adulthood as a result, and what they can do to break the pattern of destruction... Details >>
Status:Available Many Roads, One Journey: Moving Beyond the 12 Steps
Published: 1992
The author paves the way for a broader understanding of recovery that involves both personal & social awareness. She examines co-dependency in the context of internalized oppression & explores boundaries & sexual exploitation in groups. Also confronts the.. Details >>
Status:Available Mommy Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Published: 1987
A true story about a mother's alcoholism and how it affected her childrens' lives... Details >>
Status:Available One Day at a Time in Al-Anon
Published: 1968
Al-Anon family group daily reader. For anyone w/ a loved one addicted to alcohol... Details >>
Status:Available One Day At a Time in Al-Anon
Published: 1989
Al-Anon family group daily reader. For anyone w/ a loved one addicted to alcohol... Details >>
Status:Available Paths to Recovery
Published: 1997
Al-Anon's steps, tradition and concepts for family & friends of alcoholics... Details >>
Status:Available Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics
Published: 1985
Explores the secrets, fears, hopes & issues that confront adult children of alcoholics. The authors detail the challenges of control & inadequacy that ACOAs face as they struggle for recovery and understanding... Details >>
Status:Available Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics
Published: 1985
Explores the secrets, fears, hopes & issues that confront adult children of alcoholics. The authors detail the challenges of control & inadequacy that ACOAs face as they struggle for recovery and understanding... Details >>
Status:Available The Cracker Factory
Published: 1977
Picture TV's Rhoda with a drinking problem, put her into a female version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and you have "The Cracker Factory" in a barrel..... Details >>
Status:Available The Dilemma of the Alcoholic Marriage
Published: 1971
A marital program based on the belief that most have the power to bring about changes in their relationships & living conditions by searching out & correcting shortcomings... Details >>
Status:Available My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease
Published: 1987
A workbook for children of alcoholics aged 6-14 to work through the lonliness, fear, and frustration of living with this disease. Not to actually be drawn in!.. Details >>
Status:Available Children of Alcoholics: A Guide for Parents, Educators, and Therapists
Published: 1983
A guide to working with children of alcoholics for parents, teachers, and therapists. Explains how the alcoholic family functions, how parental alcoholism affects a child's personality and behavior, and how these children can overcome... Details >>
Status:Available What's "Drunk," Mama?
Published: 1977
A little girl learns that her daddy has a disease called alcoholism, and gets help from Al-Anon... Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 06/24/2010) Understanding and Counseling Persons with Alcohol, Drug, and Behavioral Addictions
Published: 1998
The newest edition of a landmark book on counseling the addict. Covers the historical origins of A.A. and the 12 Steps, a complete explanation of the etiology, treatment, and aftercare of persons w/ addictions, and newly written material on counseling tho.. Details >>
Status:Available Abused No More: Recovery for Women from Abusive or Co-Dependent Relationships
Published: 1989
A practical guide for women trapped in abusive relationships, including ones where alcohol is an issue, who need to make the first move to stop the pain, or for family & friends who want to help. Offers specific & realistic steps for coping... Details >>
Status:Available Helping Your Chemically Dependent Teenager Recover: A Guide for Parents & Other Concerned Adults
Published: 1991
A step-by-step guide. Addresses the 4 stages of recovery, problems faced by both teens & parents in each stage & how to get past them. Describes teenage recovery as a slow but steady process of growth & change unique to the developing adolescent... Details >>
Status:Available Marijuana: What's a Parent to Believe?
Published: 2003
Addiction specialist Timmen Cermak helps parents sort through the latest facts, the known risks, & the divergent perspectives on pot. His basic message? For teens, marijuana use equals risk. Your basic message? That's up to you. Addresses intervention & t.. Details >>
Status:Available Don't Leave It to Chance: A Guide for Families of Problem Gamblers
Published: 2000
Includes sections on what questions to ask, what to do, what not to do, advice on financial problems, hands-on exercises, and a wonderful explanation of how cognitive- behavioral treatments work. Equally appropriate for treatment professionals... Details >>
Status:Available Losing Your Shirt: Recovery for Compulsive Gamblers & Their Families
Published: 1992
A classic of recovery literature, this second edition offers true heartbreaking stories, updated material, and cutting-edge research on compulsive gambling. It remains the most complete, comprehensive resource available, offering compassion to addicts & t.. Details >>
Status:Available Beyond the Influence: Understanding & Defeating Alcoholism
Published: 2000
Based on the latest scientific research, this book explains the neurological nature of alcoholism & reveals why some drink addictively & some do not. New insights into the steps to take for an intervention, how to find the right treatment program, which p.. Details >>
Status:Available Inside a Support Group: Help for Teenage Children of Alcoholics
Published: 1997
Explains for teens what Alateen is and who is involved in the program, the many negative effects alcoholism has on society, and what an Alateen meeting looks like. Intended to help teens decide if Alateen is right for them... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction: Pastoral Responses
Published: 2002
An insightful introductory guide for pastors, this book highlights practical methods for making contributions to the recovery of persons in local congregations, including identifying those needing help, encouraging them to accept referral, & facilitating.. Details >>
Status:Available Necessary Steps: A Family's Journey
Published: 2004
The true story of how one family dealt as openly as possible with the painful reality of a child's addiction to drugs... Details >>
Status:Available The Recovery Book
Published: 1992
An indispensible road map to every step of the process of becoming clean & sober. Covers withdrawal & detox, raising drug-resistant kids, temptation & how to thwart it, staging an intervention, sexuality, preventing and surviving relapse, quitting smoking.. Details >>
Status:Available Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
Published: 1989
Dr. Forward shows why it is so difficult to leave the pain of toxic parents behind. She offers alternatives to "forgive & forget" for achieving inner peace & freeing yourself from the frustrating patterns you had or still have with your parents... Details >>
Status:Available Recovering Our Children: A Handbook for Parents of Young People in Early Recovery
Published: 2003
From experience w/ thousands of kids & their families, the authors help parents recognize the signs of addiction, show how they can find help, and how they can reclaims control of their lives. Emphasis on alternative peer groups... Details >>
Status:Available 12 Steps to Self-Parenting
Published: 1988
Based on the 12 steps of AA, this guide will allow you to free your Inner Child, your center of love & feelings, and to release your Higher Parent, your center of intuitive knowledge... Details >>
Status:Available Adult Children: The Secrets of Dysfunctional Families
Published: 1988
For people who grew up in families w/ perfectionism, workaholism, compulsive overeating, intimacy problems, depression, problems expressing feelings, & all the other traits that can produce dysfunction. Pulls together theory & clinical practice... Details >>
Status:Available Recovery From Co-Dependency
Published: 1989
Useful for therapists & ACOAs, addresses developmental issues that have led to addictive or compulsive behaviors in adults. Co-dependents can learn what is naturally learned by children in healthy families, and the Inner Child can be healed... Details >>
Status:Available Bradshaw On: The Family
Published: 1988
Focuses on the dynamics of the family, & how the rules & attitudes learned while growing up become encoded within each family member. Bradshaw guides us out of dysfunction to wholeness & teaches that bad betginnings can be remedied... Details >>
Status:Available I Am an Adult Who Grew Up in an Alcoholic Family
Published: 1991
Both moving & practical, this book provides hope to ACoA's & those who love them. Covers issues such as forgiving your parents, being a parent yourself, stress & depression, self esteem & self-management, and the need for a spiritual view of life... Details >>
Status:Available Aging & Addiction: Helping Older Adults Overcome Alcohol or Medication Dependence
Published: 2002
Primarily intended to help families & friends of older adults cease enabling, understand addiction, and encourage their loved one to seek treatment. Emphasis on prescription medications, alcohol & older women, involving the family physician and how grief.. Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 09/15/2010) Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading & Threatening
Published: 2004
Based on the CRAFT model, this book provides the guidance & tools you need to understand how you & your addicted loved ones interact, & how to change those patterns, improving your life while making sobriety a more rewarding option for them... Details >>
Status:Available Un Dia a la Vez En Al-Anon
Published: 2003
**One Day at a Time in Al-Anon** Daily meditations, reminders and prayers help families encourage loved ones fighting alcoholism... Details >>
Status:Available Guia Para Padres de Jovenes Deprimidos
Published: 1997
**A Parent's Guide for Suicidal & Depressed Teens** Helps parents determine whether their child is in crisis. Discusses how to deal w/ ongoing adolescent issues including depression, and how to get help... Details >>
Status:Available With Gentleness and Love: A 12 Step Guide For Adult Children in Recovery
Published: 1989
Offers re-parenting exercises & tools for recovery, such as the Victim Roles Wheel, the Freedom Wheel, Guided Visualization Processes and Creative Action Routines. Presented with gentleness, love and humor... Details >>
Status:Available Taming Your Turbulent Past: A Self-Help Guide for Adult Children
Published: 1987
Offers strategies for self-change that can help adult children of alcoholics free themselves from the turbulence of their childhoods and cope better w/ today's challenges. Addresses the anger, fear & tyranny of always needing to please... Details >>
Status:Available Facing Codependence
Published: 1989
Traces the origins of co-dependence back to childhood emotional, spiritual, intellectual & sexual abuses. Creates a framework of identifying codepen- dent behaviors & outline an effective therapy for recovery. The outcome, ideally, is more mature & satisf.. Details >>
Status:Available Bullying at School
Published: 1993
Practical advice for principals, teachers & parents on how to implement a "whole school approach to bullying," & a guide to help teachers & parents recognize if a child is being victimized or is bullying others... Details >>
Status:Available Reclaim Your Family From Addiction: How Couples and Families Recover Love and Meaning
Published: 2000
Explains how families & couples can lose their cohesive identity & meaning in the wake of addiction. Histories, personal stories & the latest research help readers chart their own way out of the hell of addiction & back to lasting, loving family relations.. Details >>
Status:Available Addict in the Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, and Recovery
Published: 2003
Personal stories that show that family members don't cause their loved one's addiction, not can they control or cure it. They can find support, set boundaries, detatch w/ love, & eventually discover how to enjoy life even if the addiction persists. A book.. Details >>
Status:Available Helping a Loved One Live Smoke-Free: What Works, What Won't and Why
Published: 2002
Covers why quitting tobacco is harder than heroin, what to do before & after your loved one quits, how to enlist the help of friends, and what to do if your loved one is your child, your parent, is pregnant or chews tobacco. Compassionate & enlightening... Details >>
Status:Available Courage To Be Me: Living With Alcoholism
Published: 1996
A treasure-trove of recovery stories specially written by and for Alateens. Every teen living with an alcoholic--recovering or not--should read this book. .. Details >>
Status:Available The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction
Published: 1997
From the basics of brain chemistry to the workings of particular drugs such as alcohol, tobacco or marijuana, The Selfish Brain explains how individuals become trapped in destructive habits-and how various treatments and approaches lead to recovery and.. Details >>
Status:Available Winning the Drug War at Home
Published: 2006
One mother's struggle & heartache upon discovering her son is using marijuana, with a Christian perspective. Includes excerpts from letters her son wrote while in Utah at a court-ordered therapeutic wilderness program... Details >>
Status:Available Overcoming Perfectionism: The Key to a Balanced Recovery
Published: 1990
Perfectionism is a compulsive pattern of behavior & thought aimed at medicating shame & other painful emotions. Discusses how perfectionism may have benefits but is ultimately an obstacle to quality living as it prevents intimacy and lowers self-esteem... Details >>
Status:Available Choices & Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs
Published: 1987
Written for parents, teachers, doctors, clergy, etc, this book tells you precisely how you can help a teen abusing substances. Describes a step-by-step process called an intervention which can be used to stop a teen's harmful involvement with chemicals... Details >>
Status:Available Green Spirituality: Reflections on Belonging to a World Beyond Myself
Published: 1992
Author of books on ACoA issues asks "What are we becoming spiritual for?" Includes meditations on expanding beyond the self to embrace the world & understand our place within it. Inspiration to reach out to the world in thought & action that is balanced &.. Details >>
Status:Available Self-Discovery in Recovery
Published: 1984
Rabbi, addiction counselor & psychiatrist, Twerski exposes the roots of addiction & emotional pitfalls encountered during recovery. Using his clients' case histories, he shows how recovery offers a unique opportunity for social, psychological & spiritual.. Details >>
Status:Available Each Day a New Beginning: Hazelden Meditation Series
Published: 1983
The first daily meditation guide created by & for women involved in 12 step recovery programs. Offers thoughts, reflections, hope, strength & guidance every day of the year... Details >>
Status:Available The Promise of a New Day: Hazelden Meditation Series
Published: 1982
A daily meditation book for men & women involved in 12 step recovery programs to affirm strength & offer hope and peace... Details >>
Status:Available Running With Scissors
Published: 2002
The true story of a boy whose mother gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist. A harrowing, sometimes funny account of a childhood where Valium was consumed like candy & if things got dull, the electroshock therapy machine could provide e.. Details >>
Status:Available Enabling in the School Setting
Published: 1988
Explains enabling systems around students w/ alcohol or other drug problems and how it manifests itself. Includes school, parent and student enabling checklists... Details >>
Status:Available Repeat After Me
Published: 1985
A workbook for adult children from alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional families. Explains how unhealthy families operate, results for the children as they progress thru adolescence and to adulthood, & offers a series of exercises to begin the healing pro.. Details >>
Status:Available Training Families To Do a Successful Intervention
Published: 1996
Properly planned & carried out with respect, intervention is highly effective. This book provides the keys that can save lives, restore careers and bring families together. Based on the Johnson Institute intervention framework. Helpful for family & friend.. Details >>
Status:Available Reclaim Your Family From Addiction
Published: 2000
Addresses the stages of addiction w/in the family, anger, how kids & couples are affected, and how hopelessness can give rise to the process of recovery. Gives special attention to how families progress through early, middle and late recovery... Details >>
Status:Available From Binge to Blackout: A Mother & Son Struggle with Teen Drinking
Published: 2006
Written by a mother & son, this book chronicles Toren's college drinking as it crosses the line into alcoholism. Includes checklists for choosing colleges, helping teens in trouble, planning spring break trips, and surviving rehab and early recovery, as w.. Details >>
Status:Available Double Duty: Dual Dynamics Within the Chemically Dependent Home
Published: 1990
Validates the unique life experiences of adult children of alcoholics during their recovery process including: food addiction, physical disability, sexual abuse, minority status, sexuality issues, being an only child, and having 2 addicted parents... Details >>
Status:Available A Provider's Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender..
Published: 2001
Full Title: "A Provider's Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals" Covers homophobia, cultural, legal & health issues, interpersonal violence, counselor competence, gender identity, administrative.. Details >>