Book
When your adult child breaks your heart : coping with mental illness, substance abuse, and the problems that tear families apart
Publication Information
Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, [2013]
Physical Description
xii, 251 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
"Advice for parents of adult children whose mental health disorders, addictions, and/or violent tendencies continue to traumatize their family's lives"--
Contents
- Understanding the severe problems adult children can cause
- Your emotions and behavioral reactions
- If your adult child lives with you
- Bad parenting
- Criminal behavior
- Alcoholism and drug addiction
- Other psychiatric problems
- Suicidal behavior
- Your physical and emotional health
- Your relationships with family and friends
- Setting limits : what you can or can't do
- Facing reality and walking away.