Addiction

Richard AS-10, 4-27-11 Another Chance Book Review After reading this book I did learn that not only the addict is suffering but the whole family is suffering also. To treat the acute stag isn’t just to abstinent. The addicts must get professional help. Like inpatient, outpatient with counselor, physicians, clergymen, psychologists, sociologist, pathologist and psychiatrists. Also the personnel of a hospital, doctor, nurses and administrative people we be great help also. All these professional people will give the addicts a much greater chance to understand he has a bad addiction problem. If the addict has the desire to truly stop drinking alcohol or using drugs. The responsibility in the beginning is for the professional person to do a good screening as possible. Which the professional person must ask the right question and understand the background of the addicts our alcoholics. Like how long he has been drinking our using drugs. What kind of physical, mentally, emotional condition they our in so the professional people can begin a good detoxification and medical doctor our mental doctors. So if the client is clear and ready to start the counseling process. We must also understand the clients culture, environment, social skills, economic situation. So you can have a good understand of the addicts and alcoholics You must build a good relationship with the addict our alcoholic so you can have good Rapport, Show Empathy, Genuineness, Attentiveness, Respect, Immediacy, Concreteness, Warmth, Listening, Reflecting, Question, Confronting. The addicts and alcoholic needs all feeling to be able to grow toward recovery. Also the addict and the alcoholics must understand who to work with other addicts and alcoholics in a group setting. I do understand how important it is for the clients to have group setting and other and other it may be difficult in the beginning to participant because this is all new to them but as time goes on some may start to feel conferrable in their new environment and by hearing other addicts and alcoholics sharing with the counselor what is going on with their life with their problem with alcohol and drugs. So when these members realize that they our also suffering from the same addiction problem. They start to participating slowly with the group and as time goes on they really get involve in their recovery process. But there is those members that may not still like the group setting and may have mental and emotional problem and the group setting may not work for them their our at the biggest risk because they will not get the help they need. But the group members that our doing good start to get vary motivating from each other with counselors and other professional help. Because they our getting good guidance and building a strong recovery bound together as the process start to mature. The group really start depend on all the other members and work hard together the saying goes I can’t but we all can as long as we stay together on this better way of living with out alcohol and drugs. Also the alcoholics and drug addicts also start to build self-esteem. Confidents back and began to learn that they can make positive decision and change negative morals that haven’t been working in the addicts and alcoholics life for a long time and replace them with new and improve good morals that will work and make their life worth living with out alcohol and drugs. Also the treatment center will introduce the alcoholics and drugs addicts to other self-help programs like AA, NA, CA, MA, EA, SA and other programs that will help the addicts and alcoholics. Also the family is suffering as much as and their was no program to help the family members that were harmed by the alcoholics and addicts. So this book talk about the beginning of starting programs to help the family. Because the family members have become vary sick also. The young kids in the family may have to take on the roll of an adult because the parents is not able to be the parent because of their addiction. So the older child takes on the responsibility to care the younger children like cooking, baby setting, cleaning and also help care for the addict mother our father when using our resting from a night of using our drinking. Also the family system have a lot of bad times because of the drinking and using. But the family tries to hold the family together from falling apart. Each member in family in suffering and in great pain mentally and physically. So the family also getting help the same way the addict get help. Like going to therapy and counseling and learning how to forgive them self and the addict. It takes as much treatment for family to heal for everything they have endured.