Coping with a Parent Who Overdrinks
Insights and Tips for Teenagers
Published on 1. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-5381-7767-9 (ISBN)
Description
Teenagers who live with a parent who overdrinks often feel isolated and alone, but the unfortunate truth is that far too many young people live with a parent who drinks too much alcohol. Coping with a Parent Who Overdrinks: Insights and Tips for Teenagers offers comfort and guidance for anyone struggling with a parent who overdrinks. Readers will learn:
How to take care of themselvesValuable coping methodsThat they are not aloneInsight from others with an overdrinking parentTips for seeking out support
With expert advice, useful resources, relevant organizations, and movie references to provide additional perspective, Coping with a Parent Who Overdrinks is a valuable guide to help teenagers face the challenging road ahead with knowledge, courage, and care.
How to take care of themselvesValuable coping methodsThat they are not aloneInsight from others with an overdrinking parentTips for seeking out support
With expert advice, useful resources, relevant organizations, and movie references to provide additional perspective, Coping with a Parent Who Overdrinks is a valuable guide to help teenagers face the challenging road ahead with knowledge, courage, and care.
Reviews / Votes
In an empathetic and comprehensive response to a difficult problem, Shreeve guides adolescent readers through living with a parent who overdrinks and the subsequent problems it may cause ... With a voice of gentle, understanding counsel, Shreeve provides readers with tools to come to terms with their situation, learn to manage it, and feel less alone. * Booklist *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Young adult
Interest Age: From 12 to 19 years
Illustrations
7 BW Illustrations, 19 Textboxes
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
235 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-7767-9 (9781538177679)
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E-Book
04/2025
1st Edition
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€22.99
Available for download
E-Book
04/2025
1st Edition
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€22.99
Available for download
Person
Michelle Shreeve is a freelance writer who has been published in newspapers, magazines, journals, and websites both locally and nationally. She has a library, education, and writing background and is the author of Coping with Parental Death: Insights and Tips for Teenagers (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). Shreeve holds two master's degrees, one in English and one in creative writing, and two undergraduate degrees in psychology.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. What is Living with An Overdrinking Parent?
Chapter 1 Causes of Overdrinking
Chapter 2 Daily Challenges
Chapter 3 Dealing in Silence
Chapter 4 Exposure to Abuse
Chapter 5 The Science and Research
Chapter 6 Teenagers Become Caretakers
Chapter 7 Enabling the Overdrinking Parent
Chapter 8 Sober Parent vs. Drunk Parent
Part II. Coping with Living with An Overdrinking Parent
Chapter 9 Positive vs. Negative Coping Methods
Chapter 10 Finding Support
Chapter 11 Ongoing Psychological Effects
Part III. Resolution
Chapter 12 The Healing Process
Chapter 13 Sins of the Overdrinking Parent
Chapter 14 Parting Advice
Resources
Bibliography
Index
About the Author