Family Strategies: Practical Tools for Treating Families Impacted by Addiction

Claudia Black

Mar 2019 · Central Recovery Press

About this ebook

A new edition written especially for behavioral health practitioners from one of the world's foremost experts on addiction and family system dysfunction, Dr. Claudia Black.

Addiction passes through families from one generation to the next. Family Strategies provides a wealth of information and guidance proven to be effective with families challenged by addiction—whether to alcohol or other drugs, gambling, food, sex, etc. Through authoritative direction and reproducible handouts, professionals are given the structure and resources to help families they work with successfully transition to recovery.

Provides strategies proven to be effective in family settings when addiction is either still active or the addicted person is in early recovery, regardless of the form of addiction.

Provides comprehensive didactic information to assist professionals working with the clinical materials.

Presents a broad range of therapeutically powerful exercises to use with families challenged by addiction.

Written in a solution-oriented and strengths-based style that provides clear step-by-step direction to guide families through each exercise.

Comes with a multitude of handouts in the form of written exercises, checklists, sentence stems, structured dialogues, and art activities—all designed to be reproduced and used without restriction.

About the author

Claudia Black, PhD is a world-renowned expert on addiction and codependency, best-selling author, and trainer internationally recognized for her pioneering and contemporary work with family systems and addictive disorders. Since the 1970s, Dr. Black’s work has encompassed the impact of addiction on young and adult children. Her writings and teachings have become a standard in the field of addictions. Claudia holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Social Psychology from Columbia Pacific University, and a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Washington. Claudia is the Clinical Architect of the Claudia Black Center for Young Adults, a Senior Fellow, and Addiction and Trauma Program Specialist at The Meadows Treatment Center in Arizona. She is one of the original founders and serves on the Advisory Board for the National Association of Children of Alcoholics and the Advisory Council of the Moyer Foundation and its development of Camp Mariposa, a camp for children impacted by addiction. She serves on the Advisory Board for the National Association of Children of Alcoholics, and the Advisory Council of the Moyer Foundation.