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 Alcohol, Anger and Abuse is an innovative five session training program designed to educate professionals and parents about the relationship between alcohol, anger and the abuse of spouses and children.
- The Lesson Guide provides the presenter with specific educational goals, objectives, session activities and handouts for the participants.
- Interactive activities along with the five programs on DVD enhance participant learning.
- Each of the five lessons can be presented in an all day workshop or in individual 90 to 120 minute sessions.
- The DVD provides real life scenes portrayed by actors depicting the alcohol/drug related physical abuse, sexual abuse and emotional abuse of children, and spousal abuse.
- The five session program offers an in-depth explanation of how alcohol, anger and abuse commonly occur together.
- Alcohol, Anger and Abuse is an excellent in-service and pre-service training program for professionals in the helping fields.
- Ideal resource to educate professionals in the fields of Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention and Child Abuse and Neglect Treatment and Prevention about the similarities in characteristics in the two conditions.
- Resource materials for participants are presented in the Lesson Guide as handouts that can be copied and distributed at each session.
Session One: The Relationship between Alcohol, Anger and Abuse
Participants increase their understanding of how alcohol serves as a disinhibitor releasing repressed emotions and memories. Anger, the expression of past hurt, is expressed in many individuals as violence, just one of the pathways that alcohol-induced abuse might take. Strategies are presented that help both parents and children learn to express and manage their anger.
Session Two: Child Abuse and Alcohol Abuse
The abuse of children and the abuse of alcohol have been around since the beginning of recorded history. The conditions share similar familial characteristics. Participants learn about the similarities between the two conditions, how to identify the early warning signs and characteristics of abusers and victims.
Session Three: Alcohol Abuse and Sexual Abuse
The sexual maltreatment of children is at epidemic proportions. Information about the different types of sexual abuse is presented as well as family conditions that lead to sexual abuse, characteristics of perpetrators and victims, characteristics of the alcoholic-incestuous family and what can be done to prevent the chances of children becoming victims.
Session Four: Family Violence, Neglect and Alcohol Abuse
Studies indicate a strong relationship exists between the abuse of women and the abuse of alcohol. Participants learn about the types of abuse to women, reasons why people abuse alcohol and women, the characteristics of men who batter and women who stay in violent relationships and warning signs that domestic violence may be occurring.
Session Five: Drinking and Emotional Abuse.
Emotional abuse is the most commonly occurring type of maltreatment. Participants learn the definitions and different types of emotional abuse, why emotional abuse happens and its effects, and what people can do to prevent emotional abuse.
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