By Mary Ellen Barnes, Ph.D., RAS

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Alcohol rehabilitation treatment providers are nearly universally wedded to the outdated 12-Step model that only works for approximately ten percent of the men they were designed for, much less for women. Women, and their usually differing needs, motivations, and solutions, are merely lumped into this one-size-kinda/sorta-fits-all category with predictably poor results.

Many women find it impossible to access help that addresses their particular circumstances, life stages, degrees of alcohol involvement, and other relevant factors. This isn’t surprising, because there are very few programs available that offer these services. Since women generally are more comfortable talking about problems rather than actively making the changes necessary to solve them, we tend to shy away from newer models of treatment that ask more of us. This is unfortunate. The older, 12-step model of treatment, that is readily found in group meetings, undermines our strengths and plays into the “victim” mentality that society imposes on women who drink too much, rather than addressing individual women and their unique situations. (more…)

By: Joe Soll, LCSW

Without blaming anyone, I suggest we take a look at the respect missing in adoption. To start with, we need to look at the beginning. The beginning was birth and separation for the mother and child. For the adoptive parents, the beginning was the discovery of being infertile or being unable to bring a child into the family any other way. (more…)

By: Dennis Gowin. LMHC NBCC and Cheryl Gowin

Many of us have times when we feel out of control and unsteady. The problem is to determine how we got there – stuck – in the first place and then to find the solution to getting out of the pattern – or unstuck.

So how do we get stuck? (more…)

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