How parents handle the hurt and violations of children determines the means by which this competency is increased.
What is relational?
100
According to RCT, we all have a yearning for this with others.
What is connection (or relationship)?
100
The person the addict places the responsibility on for the problems in the relationship.
What is the codependent or significant other?
100
The people who belong to the addict subculture that supports and participates in addictive behaviors.
Who are regulars?
100
The type of treatment that was founded by Bill Williams in 1939 for alcoholics that was male-focused and spiritually-based.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
200
When parents are in the throes of this, their relational competencies are threatened.
What is addiction?
200
When we are not able to be genuine in relationships and begin to hide aspects of ourselves, these patterns of relating are initially seen as strategies for what?
What is survival?
200
A close look at the addicts relational history will show that they find it easier to get into relationships than to do what in them?
What is sustain or stay in them?
200
How children feel when they see or believe that an addiction matters more to their parents than they do.
What is rejected?
200
Covington wrote a book, "A Woman's Way through the Twelve Steps", that guides women through the experience of addiction and what?
What is recovery (or the twelve steps)?
300
Even if construed as being inauthentic and playing by relational rules, children typically attempt to form these.
What is connections (or relationships)?
300
Unfortunately, in time our survival strategies become strategies for this.
What is disconnection?
300
A natural buffer to true intimacy that the addict uses to avoid a fight.
What is avoidance?
300
The theory that coins 'meaning-making' in personal relationships.
What is Relational-Cultural Theory (or RCT)?
300
The type of environment the counselor must provide for the addict, so they are willing and able to open up emotionally.
What is safe?
400
To "play by the rules" and keep their true feelings at bay can be described as what type of strategy?
What is strategy of disconnection (or disconnection)?
400
This is the term used to describe an experience of "being locked out of the possibility of human connection".
What is condemned isolation?
400
The period of time when the addict usually develops relational fears.
What is childhood?
400
A sub-group of people who can greatly influence and reinforce alcoholic behaviors in adolescents, thus placing them at high risk for addiction.
Who is family?
400
The main thing the therapist provides by showing the addict that their attempts to manipulate and control in therapy are noticed, and by addressing those attempts.
What is safety (or boundaries)?
500
This is chronic disconnection which actually moves people into isolation, self-blame, and immobilization.
What is pathology (or clinical depression)?
500
According to this, certain factors impact an addict's developed capacity for relationships and their ability to connect with others.
What is Models of Addiction?
500
The condition that, if not successfully treated, negatively and dangerously impacts our lives throughout our life span.
What is addiction?
500
A culture that separates body from mind, body from spirit, and feeling from thinking.
What is a dissociative culture?
500
Addicts must learn to connect, invest, and provide this type of care for significant others.