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Title: Lifeskills for Adult Children by Janet Woititz, Alan Garner ISBN: 1558740708 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: February, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 3
Summary: Not enough detail for my taste
Comment: I'm a veteran of the "adult child" genre, and as I was reading this book, I found myself thinking that other books in my library covered this ground much more effectively for my taste. I found the tone of this volume somewhat simplistic and the sample person-to-person interactions a bit forced (which I suppose is the point), but that made it hard for me to relate to them or imagine myself carrying out the sample exercises.
Personally, I got a lot more out of _Adult Children of Abusive Parents_ by Steven Farmer, which deals with many of the same topics but uses far more detail and more real-life examples I could believe actually happened, and that made a big difference in whether I felt able to take the advice to heart. (Details ARE important to me, and I felt like _Lifeskills_ was light on them: My copy may be 200 pages long, but it uses a suspiciously large font and liberal line spacing -- only 28 lines to a page.)
There's also a curious convention _Lifeskills_ uses -- three small stylized icons of a man tilting back a bottle of wine, which are used as section separators! Given that many "adult children" have one or more alcoholic parents, this really made me cringe.
If you've never read any other books in this genre, this is probably an OK place to start. I just found that with some other books on this topic I'd read, I got more "bang for the buck."
Rating: 5
Summary: An Invaluable Resource
Comment: "Lifeskills" is one of those books everyone should own. It deals with the personality traits inherent in those from dysfunctional families (primarily, children of alcoholics) and presents "normal" functioning skills which children of alcoholics often do not learn. Even if one is not a product of an alcoholic environment, this book gives an excellent view of healthy, "normal" responses to life's daily situations.
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Title: Adult Children of Alcoholics : Expanded Edition by Janet Woititz ISBN: 1558741127 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: An Adult Child's Guide to What's Normal by John C. Friel Ph.D., Linda D. Friel M.A. ISBN: 1558740902 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Struggle for Intimacy by Janet Woititz ISBN: 0932194257 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: August, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Self-Sabotage Syndrome: Adult Children in the Workplace by Janet Geringer Woititz ISBN: 1558740503 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: RECOVERY : A GUIDE FOR ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS by Julie D. Bowden, Herbert L. Gravitz, Julia D. Bowden, Sharon Wegscheider Cruse ISBN: 0671645285 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 15 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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