Raising Healthy Children in an Alcoholic Home

Author: Barbara L. WoodPublisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing PlatformPaperback:ISBN 10: 1467959189ISBN 13: 978-1467959186This is a book written for parents in recovery from alcoholism, co-dependence, and other addictive problems. It helps recovering parents to understand the impact of parental alcoholism and co-dependency on family structure, and on the developing child. It also helps them to become "therapeutic " parents: active and compassionate listeners and sensitive guides to children in crisis. About the Author Dr. Barbara Wood is a licensed psychologist with a general psychotherapy and forensic practice in Bethesda, Maryland. She specializes in the treatment of trauma, alcoholism and other substance abuse problems and is the author of Children of Alcoholism: The Struggle for Self and Intimacy in Adult Life. Washingtonian Magazine has identified her as one of the top 123 psychotherapists in the Washington, D.C. area.