Adult Children of Alcoholics

All you want to know about Adult Children of Alcoholics

Adult Children of Alcoholics refers to individuals who have grown up in a Dysfunctional or alcoholic household. Adult Children of Alcoholics carry common characteristics into adulthood as the result of their childhood and upbringing. Adult children tend to struggle with addiction. Even without a substance problem they may take on the characteristics of an addict(www.adultchildren.org). Children of Alcoholics can refer to the twelve-step program to assist them in the recovery process.[1] Friends in Recovery, designed the Twelve Steps for Adult Children of Alcoholics.[2]

Contents

Common characteristics

Dr. Janet G. Woititz identified in her book, Adult Children of Alcoholics, thirteen primary characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics:[3]

  • Guessing at what normal behavior is.
  • Having difficulty following a project through from beginning to end.
  • Lying when it would be just as easy to tell the truth.
  • Judging themselves without mercy.
  • Having difficulty having fun.
  • Taking themselves very seriously.
  • Having difficulty with intimate relationships.
  • Overreacting to changes over which they have no control.
  • Constantly seeking approval and affirmation.
  • Usually feeling that they are different from other people.
  • Extreme responsibility or irresponsibility.
  • Extreme loyalty, even in the face of evidence that the loyalty is undeserved.
  • Impulsivity - tending to lock themselves into a course of action without giving serious consideration to alternative behaviors or possible consequences. This impulsivity leads to confusion, self-loathing and loss of control over their environment. In addition, they spend an excessive amount of energy cleaning up the mess.

List of ACOAs

See also

References

  1. ^ Black, Claudia (2001). It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up With Addiction As Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults, 2nd Edition, Hazelden. ISBN 1568387989. OCLC 50175563. 
  2. ^ Friends in Recovery (1989). The 12 steps for adult children: from addictive and other dysfunctional families, Revised Edition, Recovery Publications. ISBN 0941405087. OCLC 20073450. 
  3. ^ Woititz, Dr. Janet G., Adult Children of Alcoholics, Expanded Edition, HCI, 1990.

External links

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