Treating Alcoholism
Helping Your Clients Find the Road to Recovery
Chapter One
Recognizing
Alcohol Problems
You know something is wrong with your patient, but you don't
know what it is. He looks depressed and anxious. His face is red
and swollen, his eyes watery and red. If you look closely at his
cheeks, you might see little red spider lines called spider angiomas that signal
a failing liver. Something is wrong and it nags at you. That uncomfortable
feeling inside you grows, and you don't like it.
You have been a natural born healer all of your life. When you were a
kid, you cared a little more about injured puppies and kittens than others
did. You didn't want to squash bugs. People in school talked to you
when they wouldn't talk to anyone else. People recognize a healer when
they see one.
There is another side of you that is different, though. It has been in trouble
with patients like this before. Sometimes this healing thing is not what ... read full excerpt from Treating Alcoholism: Helping Your Clients Find the Road to Recovery ebook
