What are some family rituals that involve drinking?

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Judith Welles Cousins
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, private practitioner
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Judith has worked in the field of mental health and substance abuse since 1988,  She received her Masters in Social Work from Virginia Commonweatlh University in 1991 and was licensed as a clinical social worker in 1994.  In her private practice, Judith sees adults, families, children and adolescents, and couples. She addresses such issues as substance abuse, depession, anxiety, family discord, couple conflict, poor school performance, and  life transitions. Judith believes that within each individual, family, and couple are the resources to change, heal, and thrive.  Through the process of psychotherapy, she assists clients to identify and use these resources to gain personal and relational well-being.      

What are some family rituals that involve drinking?

In this video, Judy Cousins, Clinical Social Worker, will provide answers to questions regarding reasons to quit drinking. Judy will include information regarding the nature of alcohol use, the positive and negative consequences of use, and effective strategies for quitting drinking.

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Judith W. Cousins: A family ritual that involves drinking for instance, might be a holiday, for example, when the Jew celebrate Seder they have wine as part of that meal. For some families, Christmas might be an occasion where they might have a glass of wine or the children in the family might be allowed to have something to drink. Dinner is often a ritual in a sense or where people would have a glass of wine or a glass of beer, you know family get-togethers, parties, Super bowl parties, they are not rituals always in a formal sense, but they are family traditions.

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