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Status:Available Hope: New Choices and Recovery Strategies for Adult Children of Alcoholics
Published: 1985
Addresses the legacy of doubt, shame, fear & silence that surrounds ACOA- shows how to use hidden strengths to change self-defeating patterns... Details >>
Status:Available Never Good Enough
Published: 1993
Looks at the reasons behind addictive and codependent behaviors- change is possible! Addresses ways to break the cycle for the next generation... Details >>
Status:Available Lush
Published: 2006
It's hard to be 13; especially when your father's a drunk. Samantha doesn't want her family to fall apart, but that might be what has to happen for things to be okay again... Details >>
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 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 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 Beyond the Illusion: Choices for Children of Alcoholism
Published: 1989
Children of alcoholism no longer need to deceive themselves or others. Through a careful analysis of strategies for change the author illustrates how adult children of alcoholics can discover new choices that allow them to grow beyond the illusion... Details >>
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 Children of Alcoholics: A Bibliography & Resource Guide
Published: 1987
A list of more than 700 resources representing the growing field of information for and about children of alcoholics... 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 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 Kids' Power
Published: 1989
Healing games for children of alcoholics which have been kid-tested with young (ages 6-12) children. Helps kids to step back and look at situations with safety and provide the means to express things they wouldn't feel safe expressing any other way... Details >>
Status:Available Let Go and Grow
Published: 1987
Dr. Ackerman identifies the characteristics of all adult children of alcoholics, plus the varying and diverse types... Details >>
Status:Available Living Today in Alateen
Published: 2001
This book is a collection of personal sharings from Alateen members around the world. There is a different page for each day of the year. A source of hope & strength for teens living with alcoholism in the home. .. 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 Perfect Daughters: Adult Daughters of Alcoholics
Published: 1989
This book represents many of the stories of childhood pain and the paths to recovery that have been found by many Perfect Daughters... 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 Same House Different Homes
Published: 1987
Why do siblings born to the same alcoholic parent sometimes grow up entirely different from one another? This book explains why adult children of alcoholics are not all the same... Details >>
Status:Available The Twelve Steps for Adult Children
Published: 1987
Based on the 12 Steps of AA, this book offers a specific format to guide the addict in moving from isolation & denial to accepting & dealing w/ feelings of anger, guilt, fear & despair. By releasing the past & opening up to the present, confidence & estee.. 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:Available Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Guide for Families & Communities
Published: 1998
Drawing on her life's work, the author addresses these FAS topics: diagnosis, services for high-risk mothers, teratology & brain damage, employment & advocacy, physical & behavioral manifestations, education, and public policy. For professionals and famil.. 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 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 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 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 An Elephant in the Living Room
Published: 1984
A workbook for kids age 7 thru early adolescence who are living in families where drinking or drug use is or has been a problem. Activities are designed to improve their relationships w/ family members, recognize & espress feel- ings, improve self-esteem,.. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 >>