Lesson 30: Family and Addiction: Slide  23

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Unhealthy Parents Cope By Using:

  • Denial: ‘nothing is wrong’ or ‘something was wrong but it won’t happen again’. Parents minimize, discount, joke away, rationalize or re-label destructive behaviour
  • Projection: Parents accuse the child of the very inadequacies they suffer from or they blame the child for the unhealthy behaviours that result from the parents’ inadequacies

Notes:

Galvin, K.M. & Brommel, B.J., 1999, “Family communications: Cohesion and change” (5th Ed.), Addison-Wesley, New York.

Boudreau, Richard J. Addiction and the Family , From: Alcohol and Drug Problems: A Practical Guide for Counselors. Howard, Harrison, Carver, and Lightfoot (Eds.) Toronto: Addiction Research Foundation, 1993. Pg. 333-340

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