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Behind the Label "Alcoholic."
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Wright, 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
To Help Substance Abusers, We Must First Help Ourselves.
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Educational Leadership, 1988
Administrator recounts experience growing up in alcoholic home, hoping to inspire other school professionals helping young people with substance abuse problems. Although helping others seems natural for adult children of alcoholics, certain unconsciously held attitudes and behaviors can impede school prevention and recovery programs. Organizations…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Childhood Needs, Drug Abuse, Elementary Secondary Education
Helping Young Children from Alcoholic Families: Approaches and Caregivers.
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Children Today, 1986
Explains how caregivers can reach and help children of alcoholics in a variety of settings, including schools and youth groups as well as specialized treatment centers. (HOD)
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Childhood Needs, Children, Clinics
Young Children of Alcoholics: Little People with Big Needs.
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O'Rourke, Kathy – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1992
Considers dilemma of elementary school-aged children from alcoholic families. Contends that elementary school experiences can be pivotal for these students and that educators need to understand nature, scope, and implications of chemical dependency to help these children. Describes life in alcoholic household and discusses possible feelings and…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Childhood Needs, Children, Elementary Education
Helping Children Deal with Alcoholism in Their Families.
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Buwick, Amy; And Others – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1988
Addresses the issue of alcoholism in the family, looking at the child in the alcoholic family, the influence of the alcoholic parent, and the effects of chemical dependency on the family. Provides strategies for interventions with children of alcoholics that elementary school counselors can use to help the children adjust in the school…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Child Development, Childhood Needs, Coping
Children of Alcoholics.
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Weddle, Charles D.; Wishon, Phillip M. – Children Today, 1986
Examines the problems and needs of the estimated seven million children who are growing up in alcoholic home environments--and the implications for professionals involved with young children. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Alcoholism, Childhood Needs, Children
Young Children of Alcoholics: Little People with Big Needs.
O'Rourke, Kathy – 1989
Although clinicians have recently come to view children of alcoholics as primary patients who deserve treatment in their own right, such youngsters have little access to appropriate services. Experts estimate that less than five percent of children of alcoholic parents receive the help they need. Recent research indicates that the younger the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Education, Alcoholism, Childhood Needs
Self-Esteem and Northern Cheyenne Children of Alcoholics.
Curley, Georgia – 1984
On the Northern Cheyenne Reservation--where the alcoholism rate for Cheyenne persons 14 years and older is approximately 80%--there are numerous resources available to the recovering alcoholic, but children in alcoholic families are sometimes forgotten. There is a need for preventive programs to insure that today's children do not become the next…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Alcoholism, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education