We know that alcohol addiction can be very hard to talk about – if you believe someone is suffering then you may be afraid to ask them about it. Over time, we have spoken to thousands of alcoholics and family
Another area of specialisation is addiction, for example, working with alcoholics or drug addicts.The purpose of a counsellor is to provide your clients with the support they need. A large part of the role is listening and working through a client's problems, looking at strategies that may ...
People have been shown to draw on notions of genetic predisposition to negotiate personal responsibility and blame for illness by emphasising a lack of control over the development of particular conditions (Crossley, 2002). In addition to awareness of family history, people’s capacity to self-...
Support Groups for People Affected by a Friend or Loved One’s Addiction: Al-Anon is a support group for people affected by another person’s alcohol addiction. The group is primarily composed of family members of alcoholics, but friends of alcoholics are also welcome. ...
There is also the option of an intervention. This woman could get a couple of his close friends and family members together with a trained therapist and confront him, and then take him straight from the intervention to a rehab facility. These interventions do work in some cases, and if it...
A few small clusters with possible human-to-human transmission have occurred among family members, but there has been no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission to date. The World Health Organization does not recommend any travel restrictions for China, but advises that that visitors shoul...