Family Strategies: Practical Tools for Treating Families Impacted by Addiction - Softcover

Black, Claudia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1942094922 ISBN 13: 9781942094920

Publisher: Central Recovery Press, 2019

Synopsis

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 this title

About the Author

Claudia Black, PhD is a renowned author and trainer internationally recognized for her pioneering and contemporary work with family systems and addictive disorders. Dr. Black's writings and teachings have become a standard in the field of addiction. She 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. Dr. Black is a best-selling author of numerous books, including It Will Never Happen to Me and Unspoken Legacy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Central Recovery Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1942094922
• ISBN 13: 9781942094920
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288