Co-Dependency: Issues in Treatment and Recovery

by Bruce Carruth, Warner Mendenhall

Overview

Co-dependency has finally become recognized in the late 1980s as a legitimate and a key issue in the chemical dependency field. Most of the literature available on the topic is addressed to the consumer--the co-dependent individual. In Co-dependency, leading therapists share some remarkable insights into the characteristics of the alcoholic home, co-dependents’patterns of responding to the alcoholic, and the particular problems that family members experience as a result of the environment, including fear, shame and guilt, anger, denial, and confusion. Clinical case material is used to illustrate the value of helping co-dependents through education, peer support, outpatient treatment and psychotherapy. Creative solutions for working with lesbian and gay men and children of alcoholics are also featured.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317823933
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/03/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Bruce Carruth, Warner Mendenhall

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction

• Co-dependency Definitions and Dynamics
• Co-dependence: Our Most Common Addiction--Some Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Perspectives
• Assessment of Co-dependency With Individuals From Alcoholic and Chemically Dependent Families
• System Dynamics in Alcoholic Families
• Co-dependency Treatment
• Recovery for Adult Children of Alcoholics: Education, Support, Psychotherapy
• Altering Rigid Family Role Behaviors in Families With Adolescents
• The Lonely Journey: Lesbians and Gay Men Who Are Co-dependent
• The Recovering Couples Group: A Viable Treatment Alternative
• Outpatient Co-dependency Treatment