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Call for More Research on Parent’s Addiction Recovery and Its Effect on Children
October 5th, 2011 / BFI Staff Publications / Betty Ford Institute
Jerry Moe’s keynote speech at the September 2011 NAADAC conference has been covered in this article in Joined Together.
October 5th, 2011 / BFI Staff Publications / Betty Ford Institute
Jerry Moe’s keynote speech at the September 2011 NAADAC conference has been covered in this article in Joined Together.
The Honour of All: Twenty-FIve Years of Inspiring Recovery from Alcoholism
October 5th, 2011 / BFI Staff Publications / Betty Ford Institute
Patrick Haggerson’s narrative about positive effects of “The Honour of All” documentary is featured in Counselor Magazine .
October 5th, 2011 / BFI Staff Publications / Betty Ford Institute
Patrick Haggerson’s narrative about positive effects of “The Honour of All” documentary is featured in Counselor Magazine .
Changing the Family Legacy
May 25th, 2011 / BFI Staff Publications / Jerry Moe MA
A long-held tenet in the treatment and recovery worlds is that alcoholism and other drug addictions are a family disease. Everyone in the family, including children, gets hurt by this cunning, powerful, and baffling illness. All too often it becomes a family legacy that gets passed from generation to generation. Where does it stop? Children’s programs provide a unique opportunity to interrupt the multigenerational transmission of addiction. They can teach youth important life skills, empower adults with parenting strategies that they can include in their recovery process, and heal and...
May 25th, 2011 / BFI Staff Publications / Jerry Moe MA
A long-held tenet in the treatment and recovery worlds is that alcoholism and other drug addictions are a family disease. Everyone in the family, including children, gets hurt by this cunning, powerful, and baffling illness. All too often it becomes a family legacy that gets passed from generation to generation. Where does it stop? Children’s programs provide a unique opportunity to interrupt the multigenerational transmission of addiction. They can teach youth important life skills, empower adults with parenting strategies that they can include in their recovery process, and heal and...
Parenting Issues for Parents in Recovery
May 5th, 2011 / BFI Staff Publications / Betty Ford Institute
Adults in recovery face many day-to-day challenges, and for those who are parents, maintaining good relationships with children can be both rewarding and daunting at the same time. Addressing parenting issues during various stages of recovery can lead to enhanced quality of the parent-child relationship, especially during adolescence. Research has shown that effective parenting is one of the most critical influences on healthy adolescent development – and for parents in recovery, parenting might be an even more critical factor given children’s heightened risk for problems with...
May 5th, 2011 / BFI Staff Publications / Betty Ford Institute
Adults in recovery face many day-to-day challenges, and for those who are parents, maintaining good relationships with children can be both rewarding and daunting at the same time. Addressing parenting issues during various stages of recovery can lead to enhanced quality of the parent-child relationship, especially during adolescence. Research has shown that effective parenting is one of the most critical influences on healthy adolescent development – and for parents in recovery, parenting might be an even more critical factor given children’s heightened risk for problems with...
To Understand Shame is to Understand Addiction and maybe even Life Itself
November 11th, 2010 / BFI Staff Publications / Garrett O'Connor MD
Shame, as the conductor of the affective orchestra in humans, is a powerful, elusive and tricky emotion that can protect or destroy the organism – depending on the circumstances. Often referred to as the pathological affect of abandonment, indignity, alienation and failure, the healthy function of shame, which is to protect and motivate the self to move in a positive direction by deeply disturbing it, goes largely unrecognized. This protection, however, comes with a high premium in pain and suffering for alcoholics and other addicts who, because of their frequently shameful lifestyles and...
November 11th, 2010 / BFI Staff Publications / Garrett O'Connor MD
Shame, as the conductor of the affective orchestra in humans, is a powerful, elusive and tricky emotion that can protect or destroy the organism – depending on the circumstances. Often referred to as the pathological affect of abandonment, indignity, alienation and failure, the healthy function of shame, which is to protect and motivate the self to move in a positive direction by deeply disturbing it, goes largely unrecognized. This protection, however, comes with a high premium in pain and suffering for alcoholics and other addicts who, because of their frequently shameful lifestyles and...
Patrick Haggerson Published in Counselor Magazine
August 16th, 2010 / BFI Staff Publications / Betty Ford Institute
Patrick Haggerson, MA, CADC-II, ICADC, first visited Alkali Lake in British Columbia in 1999 as a guest speaker at the community's annual recovery celebration event. He continued to make these annual trips for many years, and what began with his participation in this annual event evolved into a strong bond between the community and the Betty Ford Center. When the community's therapist retired in 2005, Patrick took on that role and continues to make monthly trips to Alkali Lake. In addition to individual therapy sessions, he offers family workshops; art therapy groups; a...
August 16th, 2010 / BFI Staff Publications / Betty Ford Institute
Patrick Haggerson, MA, CADC-II, ICADC, first visited Alkali Lake in British Columbia in 1999 as a guest speaker at the community's annual recovery celebration event. He continued to make these annual trips for many years, and what began with his participation in this annual event evolved into a strong bond between the community and the Betty Ford Center. When the community's therapist retired in 2005, Patrick took on that role and continues to make monthly trips to Alkali Lake. In addition to individual therapy sessions, he offers family workshops; art therapy groups; a...
Dr. Garrett O’Connor Published in Addiction Professional
August 11th, 2010 / BFI Staff Publications / Betty Ford Institute
"Doctors' role in the prescription abuse crisis" is the subject of an article by Garrett O'Connor, MD, President of the Betty Ford Institute, in the July/August 2010 issue of Addiction Professional magazine . Dr. O'Connor says that as a consequence of inadequate education about addiction in medical school and residency training, a significant majority of physicians in the U.S. wittingly or unwittingly contribute to the prescription drug epidemic because they lack the skill, knowledge and training to diagnose and treat addictive disease. These deficiencies are exacerbated by prejudice...
August 11th, 2010 / BFI Staff Publications / Betty Ford Institute
"Doctors' role in the prescription abuse crisis" is the subject of an article by Garrett O'Connor, MD, President of the Betty Ford Institute, in the July/August 2010 issue of Addiction Professional magazine . Dr. O'Connor says that as a consequence of inadequate education about addiction in medical school and residency training, a significant majority of physicians in the U.S. wittingly or unwittingly contribute to the prescription drug epidemic because they lack the skill, knowledge and training to diagnose and treat addictive disease. These deficiencies are exacerbated by prejudice...
What is Recovery? A Working Definition from Betty Ford Institute (2007)
June 7th, 2010 / BFI Staff Publications / Betty Ford Institute
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