Women and Recovery: Finding Hope
Tens of millions of women today drink to excess and their numbers are growing. Now Dr. Kitty Harris, an experienced counselor and therapist who is herself a recovering alcoholic with more than thirty years of sobriety, presents a new model for recovery that focuses on treating the pain in women's lives that can lead to a vicious cycle of addiction--not on the shame that fuels it. Combining her personal and professional experience, Dr. Harris offers tools that can help women who want to recover as well as friends or family members who are seeking help for a loved one.
- Focuses on dealing with the pain associated with alcoholism in women, not reinforcing the shame
- Discusses the different types of female drinking habits, including binge drinking and drunkorexia
- Takes a plain-language, jargon-free approach that is easy to understand and shares the stories of recovering women of all ages and from all walks of life
- Is written by Dr. Kitty Harris, Director of The Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery at Texas Tech University, with twenty-five years of private clinical experience working with adults and adolescents
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Book details
- Author
- Kitty Harris
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 256
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Self-Help › Substance Abuse & Addictions › Alcohol
- Topics
- alcoholism recovery · women and addiction · sobriety · alcohol abuse · chemical dependency · shame and addiction · women's mental health
- ISBN-13
- 9780470941836
About the author
KITTY S. HARRIS is Professor Emeritus at Texas Tech University and CEO of No Life Wasted, a research, education, and addiction recovery consulting company. She is the author of Women and Recovery: Finding Hope and co-editor of Substance Abuse Recovery in College.
Harris holds a Ph.D. and LCDC credential and served for twelve years as Director of the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery at Texas Tech University. Her work drew national coverage in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN, and the NBC Today Show.
When not writing, Harris leads RecoverOnline, an online treatment program for alcohol and substance use disorders, and previously served as Executive Director of the Ranch at Dove Tree, a residential alcohol and drug treatment center. This work directly informs her writing on addiction and recovery.