November 26th, 2009 by admin
It took several years but Emily at long last made up her mind that she had it with her husband’s abusive and hazardous drinking. She was sick and tired of seeing Barry come home after 2:00 AM from drinking rather than spending quality time with the family. She was also drained from the DUI Barry [...]
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November 23rd, 2009 by admin
Approximately a month ago I met a twenty-four-year-old lady named Rachael who is manic depressive and who is also drug and alcohol dependent. I remember reading that under such circumstances, an individual needs to get counseling for both medical conditions and that mental health difficulties and dependency commonly take place in the same individual. In [...]
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November 4th, 2009 by admin
What are the fundamental factors in a successful alcohol intervention? Why do some alcoholism interventions succeed while others fail?
The Need for a Well-Known Record of Intervention Success
Scientific analysis displays that a “winning” alcohol dependency intervention needs to be administered by an intervention expert who has a recognized history of intervention attainment.
In essence this means that [...]
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November 4th, 2009 by admin
Miss Benning was a health teacher at the most underfinanced co-ed high school in the county. Even though she had been teaching for only two years, she had already acquired a reputation as an instructor with instructional methods that motivated and stimulated her pupils to learn and to think.
As an illustration, one Monday morning at [...]
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October 26th, 2009 by admin
How do you recognize that you have a drinking problem? When is it clear that you are engaging in alcohol abuse?
If you have unsuccessfully tried to stop drinking or if you have given your word to yourself that your drinking days are finished and then you recognized that you were drinking in an excessive way [...]
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October 26th, 2009 by admin
Heather is a fifty-seven-year-old woman who is the top administrator in the human resources department at a large lead fabricating company. To help decrease the costs linked to poor employee work performance, increasing absenteeism, excessive sick days, work related injuries, and employee alcohol abuse and alcoholism, Heather and the other company executives established quite a [...]
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October 18th, 2009 by admin
Jennifer is a thirty-five-year-old sales assistant who has been consuming alcohol in an abusive and hazardous manner since she and her fiancée broke off their relationship. In truth, for the past three months she has been drinking just about a bottle of wine every night, and on the weekends she also has been drinking a [...]
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October 12th, 2009 by admin
Teresa was a forty-two-year-old bookkeeper who knew that she had some drinking issues. For example, within the past three months she has felt the need to have quite a few drinks before going to work, three months ago she failed a random blood alcohol test where she is employed, four weeks ago she got stopped [...]
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October 12th, 2009 by admin
Jennifer is a thirty-six-year-old outside sales representative who has been drinking quite extensively since she and her boyfriend severed their relationship. In fact, for the past four months she has been drinking just about two bottles of wine every night, and on the weekends she also has been drinking several shots during the day. In [...]
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October 11th, 2009 by admin
Heather is a sixty-two-year-old woman who is the top administrator in the human resources department at a large aluminum plating company. In order to help decrease the costs associated with work related injuries, poor employee work performance, excessive sick days, employee alcoholism and alcohol abuse, and increasing absenteeism, Heather and the other VIPs launched some [...]
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