A breakthrough recovery plan for women who struggle with alcoholism, based ona groundbreaking new modelTens of millions of women today drink to excess andtheir numbers are growing. Now Dr. Kitty Harris, an experienced counselor andtherapist who is herself a recovering alcoholic with more than thirty years of sobriety, presents a new model for recovery that focuses on treating the pain in women's lives that can lead to a vicious cycle of addiction—not on the shame that fuels it. Combining her personal and professional experience, Dr. Harris offers tools that can help women who want to recover as well as friends orfamily members who are seeking help for a loved one.Focuses on dealing with the pain associated with alcoholism in women, not reinforcing the shameDiscusses the different types of female drinking habits, including binge drinking and drunkorexia Takes a plain-language, jargon-free approach that is easy to understand and shares the stories of recovering women of all ages and from all walks of lifeIs written by Dr. Kitty Harris, Director of The Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery at Texas Tech University, with twenty-five years of private clinical experience working with adults and adolescents INDICE: AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One. Women Who Drink Too MuchQuiz-Alcohol IQChapter 1. My StoryChapter 2. Where Does it Hurt?Chapter 3. Closet DrinkersChapter 4. BarhoppingChapter 5. Binge DrinkingChapter 6. When Mothers DrinkChapter 7. DrunkorexiaChapter 8. When Bad Things Happen to Drunk WomenPartTwo. Breaking The Cycle of AddictionQuiz-Drinking HabitsChapter 9. Choosing Life Over LiquorChapter 10. Recovery StrategiesChapter 11. Staying Sober: Alcoholics Anonymous and Other ProgramsChapter 12. Family MattersPostscriptGetting Help: Resources for RecoveryReferencesIndex
- ISBN: 978-0-470-94183-6
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 27/06/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés