Claudia Black – The Adult Child of Addiction

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Exploring the Essential Features of “Claudia Black – The Adult Child of Addiction”

Speaker:Claudia Black, PhD

Duration:2 Hours 01 Minutes

Format:Audio and Video

Copyright:Mar 22, 2024  

Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description

When people think of trauma, they often think of acute, dramatic situations, such as a natural disaster. Yet for children raised with substance use disorders, the disaster is within their family system. In this workshop, you’ll explore the experiences of adult children of alcoholics and the implications for the clinical setting. You’ll also understand how to work with the emotional dysregulation and traumatic responses that adverse child experiences, emotional abandonment, and blatant abuses can fuel throughout life. We’ll learn: 

• How to recognize and assess adult children of addiction (ACA) or adult children of alcoholics (ACoA) 
• How treatment of this type of trauma is different from that of single-incident traumatic stress 
• How to help adult children of addiction and alcoholism recover from the reverberations of past trauma 

Speaker

Claudia Black, PhD, is a renowned addictions and codependency expert, 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. She has offered models of intervention and treatment related to family violence, multi-addictions, relapse, anger, depression and women’s issues. Dr. Black designs and presents training workshops and seminars to professional audiences in the field of family service, mental health, addiction and correctional services. She is the Sr. Editorial Advisor for Central Recovery Press and serves as Senior Clinical and Family Services Provider for Las Vegas Recovery Center. She serves on the Advisory Board for the National Association of Children of Alcoholics, and the Advisory Council of the Moyer Foundation.

Dr. Black is the recipient of numerous national awards, including the 2004 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

Dr. Black has been a keynote speaker on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. Her workshops have been presented to an extraordinarily wide array of audiences, including military academies, prison systems, medical schools, and extensive mental health and addiction programs. Claudia has extensive multi-cultural experiences working with agencies and audiences in Japan, Brazil, Australia, Scotland, Iceland, Germany, England and Canada. Many of her books and videos have been translated and published abroad.

Claudia is the author of Depression Strategies, It Will Never Happen To Me, Changing Course, My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has A Disease, Repeat After Me, It’s Never Too Late to Have A Happy Childhood, Relapse Toolkit, A Hole in the Sidewalk, Straight Talk, The Stamp Game, Family Strategies, Anger Strategies and her newest title Deceived: Facing Sexual Betrayal, Lies and Secrets. She has produced several audio CDs and over twenty DVDs. All of Claudia’s materials are available from her website, www.claudiablack.com.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Claudia Black is the Clinical Architect of the Claudia Black Center for Young Adults, a Senior Fellow, and an Addiction and Trauma Program Specialist at The Meadows Treatment Center. She receives royalties as a published author. Claudia Black receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Claudia Black serves as an advisory board member for the National Association for Children of Addiction and serves on the advisory council for the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors.

Objectives

1. Describe the concept of adult child and its relevancy to frequently presented clinical issues. 
2. Identify how the trauma responses to flight, fight and freeze become acted out in the family impacted by substance use disorders. 
3. Delineate the impact of single-incident and chronic traumas in the addicted family. 
4. Describe techniques to facilitate healing for adult children of addiction. 

Outline

• The history of the phrase ‘adult child’ 
• The key ways family dynamics impact child development  
• The traumatic-stress response as fuel for depression, addictive disorders and other self-defeating behaviors  
• Working with single-incident, chronic, and complex traumas in the addicted family 
• The seven-step healing process for adult children of addiction 
• Risks and limitations of the research 

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Social Workers 

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