Adult Children of Alcoholics
Ten years ago, Janet Woititz broke new ground in our understanding of what it is to be an Adult Child of an Alcoholic, sometimes called codependency.
Today she re-examines the movement and its inclusion of Adult Children from various dysfunctional family backgrounds who share the same characteristics.
After more than ten years [...]
Co-Victims of Alcoholism, some times called codependency
Many of us found that we had several characteristics in common as a result of being brought up in an alcoholic or other dysfunctional households.
We had come to feel isolated, and uneasy with other people, especially authority figures. To protect ourselves, we became people pleasers, even though we lost [...]
Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) refers to individuals who have grown up in a dysfunctional family as a result of their parents or caretakers alcoholism.
Each ACOA finds they often have common characteristics in adulthood as the result of their childhood and upbringing, often including alcohol or drug abuse themselves. These traits can also be found [...]
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Reconstructing the alcoholic family.
World view change in co-dependents, Adult Children of Alcoholics/Al-Anon self-help groups.
We examined the processes through which 20 committed members (aged 29-52 yrs) of self-help groups for adult children of alcoholics experience alterations in their perceptions of family of origin.
Results suggest that world view transformation in the family of origin domain involves;
learning [...]
You can talk to a dozen experts, read a dozen books and get a dozen different interpretations of ACOA co-dependency.
Many accept it as a disease in as much as it has an onset, is progressive, predictable and in time is potentially fatal, although other causes of death are generally cited.
It is assumed that all [...]
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