Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 288, 2003
© 2003 Medical Council on Alcohol
BOOK REVIEW
The Alcoholic Family in Recovery. A Developmental Model.
By Stephanie Brown and Virginia Lewis. The Guilford Press, New York. 1998, 308 pp., £26.95. ISBN: 1-57230-402.
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The Alcoholic Family in Recovery offers a developmental model exploring the process of recovery from addiction as it affects the entire family.
The model of recovery is very much based on the 12-step philosophy espoused by Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon. The process of recovery is delineated by qualitative research within the Family Recovery Research Project.
A total of 52 couples and families with lengths of abstinence