Double Duty: Sexually Abused : Dual Dynamics Within the Chemically Dependent Home - Tapa blanda

Focuses on helping Adult Children of Alcoholics who, aside from coping with family alcoholism, must deal with the additional dynamic of sexual abuse. Reprint.

nuing work with ACOAs, Dr. Claudia Black saw some people hit a baffling "wall" in their recovery. She began to realize that certain conditions and circumstances could halt an individual's progress if left unidentified. These "Double Duty and Dual Identity" issues are the itensified life experiences of ACOAs who have had to contend not only with family alcoholism or dysfunction, but who have an additional dynamic that has profoundly affected their lives and their recovery. Having been sexually abused is just such a double duty issue.
Children living in alcoholic homes are less able to defend themselves against sexual abuse than non-COAs: they have more to fear about trusting their own perceptions, and more confusion about appropriate boundaries. Their sense of powerlessness over the chaos in their homes becomes total powerlessness over their own bodies. The abandonment, betrayal, and shame they experience can result in depression, panic attacks, phobias, and addiction to alcoh