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Status:Available When Someone You Love Has a Drinking Problem (Audio CD)
Published: 2002
You don't have to wait for your loved one to get sober to get help for yourself. Info & advice on getting support to understand & cope. Addresses denial, silence, co-dependency, helping children cope, and the road to recovery... 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: July 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: New Medication for Opiate Addiction; Harm Reduction; Workforce Development Strategies; Body Image in Adolescent Girls; Teens with Addicted Parents; Treating a Gambling Disorder; Do I Want to Be a SAP?... Details >>
Status:Available Medical Aspects of Co-Dependency
Published: 1986
Covers the physical & emotional effects that a chemically dependent person has on family, friends, and co-workers. Addresses family roles, sexuality, medical diseases, and what happens to the family system when even one member seeks help. Great informatio.. Details >>
Status:Available Picking Up the Pieces
Shows how each family member is affected when one member is an alcoholic... Details >>
Status:Available Trust in Yourself: ACoA
Shows five adults who grew up in alcoholic homes struggling to overcome their own hurt and confusion... Details >>
Status:Available Joey and Me
Published: 1976
Animated film about the friendship between two boys, one of whom has an alcoholic mother. Emotional ending provides fuel for discussion... Details >>
Status:Available Adult Children of Alcoholics: Masks of Denial
Uses a psyco-drama format to dramatize the problems of adults who grew up in an alcoholic family... Details >>
Status:Available Living A Lie: The Alcoholic Family
Published: 1999
Teen COAs go on a retreat to further their acceptance process. Covered are family roles, concept of a 'perfect' family, and characteristics of healthy families... Details >>
Status:Available Enabling: Masking Reality
Published: 1988
Dramatization of family & workplace enabling of an addict. We see how a doctor, wife, daughter, sister and co-worker interact with Ben in ways that allow him to keep using alcohol & cocaine. Is to be followed by video #33, Intervention: Facing Reality... Details >>
Status:Available Children of Alcoholics
Published: 1989
Vignettes show the points of view of a 12 year old and a 17 year old growing up in an alcoholic family... Details >>
Status:Available Scared, Sad and Mad
Animated film teaches young children that alcoholism is a disease, that it is not their fault, and that help is available... Details >>
Status:Available When Your Parent Drinks Too Much
Published: 1987
Alan Thicke hosts this program which features kids discussing family problems in a support group, and vignettes of home life. Encourages children to seek help and reminds them that they cannot cure or control their parents' illness... Details >>
Status:Available Together: Families in Recovery
Published: 1980
For the whole family of the addicted person, this video shows possible warning signs of relapse and helps the family cope with problems experienced in the early stages of recovery... Details >>
Status:Available It's Not My Problem
An introduction to co-dependency and family systems, with emphasis on the families of newly recovering addicts... Details >>
Status:Available Co-Dependents in the Shadows
Published: 1989
Analysis of the behavior of a person who is living with an alcoholic. Helps co-dependents come to terms with the family's illness... Details >>
Status:Available Identification and Referral of Children of Alcoholics
For use as self-instruction or as curriculum material. Program Implementation Guide available... Details >>
Status:Available Elephant in the Living Room
Dramatization of the denial and secrecy that pervades life in an alcohol home and other type of dysfunctional family... Details >>
Status:Available Twee, Fiddle, & Huff
Whimsical animated video that teaches children healthy ways to cope with family problems such as alcohol and other drug dependence... Details >>
Status:Available Kids at Risk: Blaming Kitty
Teaches children decision-making skills to cope with family members who have alcohol and other drug dependence... Details >>
Status:Available Soft is the Heart of a Child
Classic video from the 1970s depicting the effects of an alcoholic father on his three small children... Details >>
Status:Available All Bottled Up
Animated stories about children of alcoholics encourage teens to tell a friend or any adult they trust if they have an alcoholic parent, and not to keep feelings ALL BOTTLED UP... Details >>
Status:Available Guidelines
Published: 1976
Father Martin provides eight guidelines which families of alcoholics can follow. Gives powerful insight on what tools an average person can use to get an alcoholic loved-one help... Details >>
Status:Available Poor Jennifer: She's Always Losing Her Hat
This video is about a child who grows up in an alcoholic home. It gives reinforcement to children of alcoholics that it is not their fault... Details >>
Status:Available Alateen Tells it Like it Is
Published: 1987
This video, created with artwork by a teenage girl, features a young narrator and two other teenagers who share what growing up in an alcoholic home is like, how they found Alateen, and why they stayed... Details >>
Status:Available Al-Anon Speaks for Itself
Published: 1986
Offering a glimpse of the help and hope available in the Al-Anon fellowship, this docu-drama captures the essence of its program; members sharing their stories, going to a meeting, getting better, getting to know the program, and getting on with life... Details >>
Status:Available Alateen Tells It Like It Is
This video, created with artwork by a teenage girl, features a young narrator and two other teenagers who share what growing up in an alcoholic home is like, how they found Alateen, and why they stayed... Details >>
Status:Available Al-Anon Speaks for Itself
Offering a glimpse of the help and hope available in the Al-Anon fellowship, this docu-drama captures the essence of its program- members sharing their stories, going to a meeting, getting better, getting to know the program, and getting on with life... Details >>
Status:Available Bottled Up
PBS special about a teenage girl living with an alcoholic mother... Details >>
Status:Available Family Disease
David Bender of the Council on Drug & Alcohol Abuse explains in detail the concept of family disease... Details >>
Status:Available The Family Trap
Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse provides a revealing look into the survival roles adopted by family members of an addicted person. Discusses the pressures that contribute to family illness, & how identification, intervention, & counseling can help... Details >>
Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: The Next Generation
Published: 1998
Focuses on prevention efforts based on community & family. Shows parents addicted to heroin being taught how to repair the damage to the family and how to raise strong, resilient children. The second part goes into the schools and looks for kids at risk.. Details >>
Status:Available Lots of Kids Like Us
Published: 1998
Two young men discover they once attended camp together at a very important time in their lives. This touching video can help reach children of alcohol and let them know they are not at fault, that they are not alone, and they can get help... Details >>
Status:Available Recovery and the Family
Father Joseph Martin explains the impact recovery of an alcoholic/addict has on the family and how to cope with the changes that occur... Details >>
Status:Available Soft is the Heart of a Child
Depicts the devastating effect an alcoholic has on the family; shows how the kids react, especially at school; describes how an understanding school counselor effectively intervenes... Details >>
Status:Available Mom! Louie's Looking at Me Again!
Themes relating to children of alcoholics' experiences growing up in dysfunctional family of origin. This video does an exceptional job of portraying the anger, pain, bewilderment of addicted families. Very humorous presentation... Details >>
Status:Available Reflections from the Heart of a Child
Vividly portrays the impact of chemical dependency on the family as three young lives are ravaged by a father's alcoholism and a mother's inability to cope... Details >>
Status:Available Child's View
Published: 1990
Black reads from her book "My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease," and discusses with a group of kids topics like blackouts, denial & pretending, promise breaking, and being scared, sad, mad & embarassed because of their parents' addictions. Book is also.. Details >>
Status:Available Poor Jennifer. She's Always Losing Her Hat
Published: 1991
Designed to educate adults about the issues of children of alcoholics. Explores the cycles of shame and silence. Viewer's guide included... Details >>
Status:Available Teaching Children Affected by Substance Abuse
Published: 1994
6 practices are described: Creating a Nurturing Classroom, Encouraging Cooperative Learning, Facilitating Transitions, Help Manage Behavior, Assessing for Progress, and Building School-Home Connections. Ideas and activities included, as is a Teacher Guide.. Details >>
Status:Available Risk & Reality: Teaching Preschool Children Affected By Substance Abuse
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Status:Available Nation's Challenge: A Guide for Educators of Children Affected by AOD- Part 1
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Status:Available Nation's Challenge: A Guide for Educators of Children Affected by AOD- Part 2
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Status:Available Lost Childhood: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Family
Published: 2004
In this moving film, you’ll visit a summer camp program for children of alcoholics and hear youngsters tell their experiences in their own words. Then 15 years later, meet some of these same children as adults who received the tools they needed to grow up.. Details >>
Status:Available Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars (DVD)
Published: 2005
**DVD** Focuses on 10 of the 48 girls in Troop 1500 as they make their monthly trip to the Gatesville Hilltop Prison, about 90 miles northeast of Austin. The girls were trained in media production & then interviewed their mothers about whey they ended up.. Details >>
Status:Available End Broken Promises, Mend Broken Hearts
Published: 2003
For educators, parents, clergy, & criminal justice, treatment & medical professionals who want info on the needs of children w/ chemically dependent parents. Features noted authorities Claudia Black and Jerry Moe... Details >>