Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics by Gravitz, Herbert L.

Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780671645281)

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Format: Paperback
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Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics by Gravitz, Herbert L.

Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics

$17.00
Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics by Gravitz, Herbert L.

Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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Rich with insight and awareness, Recovery explores the secrets, fears, hopes and issues that confront adult children of alcoholics. Authors and widely respected therapists and ACOA workshop leaders Herbert Gravitz and Julie Bowden detail in a clear question-and-answer format the challenges of control and inadequacy that ACOAs face as they struggle for recovery and understanding, stage-by-stage: Survival
* Emergent Awareness
* Core Issues
* Transformations
* Integration
* Genesis.
If you feel troubled by your post, Recovery will start you on the path of self-awareness, as it explores the searching questions adult children of alcoholics seek to hove answered:
* How con I overcome my need for control?
* Do all ACOAs ploy the some kind of roles in the family?
* How do I overcome my fear of intimacy?
* What is all-or-none functioning?
* How can ACOAs maintain self-confidence and awareness after recovery?
* How do ACOAs handle the family after understanding its influence?
* And many other important questions about your post, family and feelings.
Written with warmth, joy and real understanding, Recovery will inspire you to meet the challenges of the post and overcome the obstacles to your happiness.

Author: Herbert L. Gravitz, Julie D. Bowden
ISBN-10: 0671645285
ISBN-13: 9780671645281
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Language: English
Published: 09/15/1987
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.54w x 0.40d
By Herbert L. Gravitz
By Herbert L. Gravitz
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Herbert L. Gravitz, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist in Santa Barbara, California. He is a founding Board Member of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACOA), and currently serves on the Advisory Board. He was Executive Editor of "The Network," a publication of NACOA and authored the Children of Alcoholics Handbook.

Julie D. Bowden, M.S., is a Marriage, Family, and Child Psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Barbara, California. She developed the first Alcohol/Drug Awareness Program for the University of California system and has consulted on both inpatient and outpatient recovery programs. She is a founding Board Member of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACOA), and its first treasurer. She currently serves on the Advisory Board. She is the adult child of an alcoholic.

Together, they conduct recovery retreats, individual and group psychotherapy, and educational seminars for adult children of alcoholics as well as other adult children of trauma and the professionals who serve them. They began the University of California's first therapy group specifically for adult children of alcoholics. They have authored numerous articles and are coauthors of an upcoming book, Genesis: The Spiritual Dimension of Recovery for Children of Alcoholics and Other Children of Trauma.

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