The ACOA's Guide to Raising Healthy Children

For a person reared by an alcoholic mother and/or father, the thought of becoming a parent can revive deep-seated fears of insecurity, worthlessness and abandonment. From his experience counseling hundreds of adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs) who have successfully raised families, Dr. Jim Mastrich shares how to end the cycle of alcoholism and heal yourself by being a confident parent. Both ACOAs and professionals in the field of counseling will find this an important tool for helping ACOAs raise their children in the positive, healthy environment they never experienced as a child. -The afterword contains a taped table of contents.