Research Catalog

Title

Treating adult children of alcoholics : a developmental perspective / Stephanie Brown.

Author

Brown, Stephanie, 1944-

Publication

New York : Wiley, ©1988.

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Details

Description

xxii, 333 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This book deals with the psychopathology and treatment of children of alcoholics, especially those in adult years. It discusses family dynamics, effects on the child's development and the effects on professionals dealing with these cases.

Series Statement

Wiley series on personality processes

Uniform Title

Wiley series on personality processes

Subject

• Adult children of alcoholics > Psychology
• Adult children of alcoholics > Mental health > United States
• Alcoholics > Rehabilitation > United States
• Parent and child
• Alcoholism > rehabilitation
• Parent-Child Relations
• Parent and child
• Adult children of alcoholics > Mental health
• Adult children of alcoholics > Psychology
• Alcoholics > Rehabilitation
• Alkoholiker
• Kind
• Therapie
• Psychotherapie
• Volwassenen
• Familieleden
• Alcoholisme
• United States

Note

• "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 313-323.

Contents

The children of alcoholics -- The alcoholic family environment -- Interactions, patterns, and adaptations -- Trauma and defensive adaptations -- The impact of parental alcoholism on attachment -- The impact of parental alcoholism on identity formation -- The process of recovery : theory -- Preparation for recovery : drinking and transition -- Early recovery -- Ongoing recovery -- What is progress : growing up, growing out, and coming home.

ISBN

• 0471853003
• 9780471853008
• 0471155594
• 9780471155591

LCCN

87034513

OCLC

• ocm17259239
• 17259239
• SCSB-1197527

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library