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Peer reviewedWright, Deborah M. – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1989
Relates individual's personal story of her childhood influenced by her parent's alcoholism, her own alcoholism as a young adult, and her experiences with counseling. Asks others not to reject her because of the label "alcoholic." (ABL)
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Biographies, Childhood Needs, Family Life
Peer reviewedKemper, Kim – Thresholds in Education, 1996
A junior high school teacher shares the story of a childhood dominated by poverty, family alcoholism, sexual and physical victimization, and haphazard school attendance. Surviving these traumatic experiences (and a teen pregnancy) was not easy. This teacher's background enables her to unearth covering-up strategies used by children trying to…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Autobiographies, Child Abuse, Divorce
Monroe, Mark; Reyer, Carolyn, Ed. – 1994
In his autobiography, Mark Monroe relates his life experiences as a Lakota Sioux Indian in White America. The book begins with Monroe reminiscing about his happy childhood on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. In 1941 his family moved to Alliance, Nebraska, and his father Dakota. In 1941 his family moved to Alliance, Nebraska, and his father…
Descriptors: Activism, Alcoholism, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education
