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CODEPENDENCY [2 records]

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Record 1 1999-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personality Development
DEF

An emotional dependency on supporting or caring for another person. The state or condition of being dependent this way.

CONT

Understanding codependency : Many people have cared deeply about someone who had a chemical dependency. They may not have realized it, but their behaviors probably changed, too. Many became codependent. They compulsively reacted to the chemically dependent person's behavior and tried to control it.

CONT

Co-dependency is the major outcome of dysfunctional family systems. Suffice it to say that co-dependents no longer have their own feelings, needs and wants. They live in reaction to the family distress.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement de la personnalité
CONT

Hey-Way-Noqu' est un programme de traitement externe de deux ans [...] qui s'adresse à des familles touchées par quelque problème que ce soit lié à la toxicomanie-drogue, alcool, codépendance, les difficultés d'enfants d'alcooliques à l'âge adulte [...].

OBS

Cet exemple a été tiré d'un article rédigé par Lorraine Brave, directrice générale de la Société Hey-Way-Noqu'Circle for Addictions, dans Vis-à-vis de février 1991.

Spanish

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Record 2 1994-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Services and Social Work
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
  • Sociology of Human Relations
CONT

"Our whole community needs fixing. Our whole way of organizing our socio-economic and personal lives together needs to be re-evaluated." ... [They] brought in a one-week co-dependency treatment program as they realized untreated co- dependency in extended families impedes healthy interventions.

Key term(s)
  • codependency treatment program
  • co dependency treatment program

French

Domaine(s)
  • Services sociaux et travail social
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
  • Sociologie des relations humaines

Spanish

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