HUNDREDS OF PRACTICAL AND EFFECTIVE SUGGESTIONS TO ----------
------ discover "what's really going on"
---- get others to be "the bad guy" if an intervention is needed
---- learn whether or not your child is "going through a phase" or if it's really alcoholism//addiction
---- learn about the genetics of alcoholism -- and that you are not to be blamed
---- learn why you are NOT an ''enabler'' --- no matter what others have said
---- learn what to do if you are surrounded by alcoholics
--- deal with your alcoholic -ex (if you are separated) and he
a.) plays "Santa" with your child, making you seem like the heavy-handed 'bad' guy who's 'paranoid' and 'always sees a problem"
b.) is drinking alcoholically himself-- and your child ''looks up to him''
c.) offers to have your child live with him (so he can pay less child support) ---- but who drives drunk and offers your child beer or pot or pills
d.) has a 'new girlfriend' or wife who drinks with him--- and who tell the world that you're just jealous when you don't want your children around that kind of influence
e.) much more.........
CHAPTER TITLES ARE ----
Foreward by Carolyn Burns, former vice-president, National Federation of Parents for Drug-Free Youth
Three parents tell their stories
Is it "just a phase"?
Parents are not guilty --- the genetic facts about alcoholism
Why most therapies haven't been able to help
Suicide, therapy, and other teen issues: young A.A. members anonymously tell their stories
Intervention
Tough love is too tough for most of us with our children ---- how professionals can help do the intervention for you
During treatment and after ----- the recovery process continues
If your child is also mentally-ill
Caught in the middle ----- when adult children of alcoholics are also parents of alcoholic children
Alcoholic 'games' ---- when your alcoholic ex-spouse adds to your troubles
Surrounded by alcoholism ---- if your spouse AND children are alcoholic
Recovering alcoholics deal with their own children's alcoholism
No need for shame----- if your child is violent
OTHER BOOKS BY TOBY RICE DREWS----
** "Getting Them Sober, volume one -- You CAN Help!" (this million-selling classic is endorsed by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, 'dear Abby', and Melody Beattie, who said, "Getting Them Sober is the best book for the family of the still-drinking alcoholic"),
** "Getting Them Sober, volume 2" (more on total family healing),
** "Getting Them Sober, volume 3" (more family issues that arise because of addiction ---- AND half the book details the 350 secondary diseases and disorders to alcoholism),
** "Getting Them Sober, volume 4" (the hidden issues during AND after divorce --- when there is alcoholism)",
** "Sex and the Sober Alcoholic".
