When Nobody's Home.....: Addiction vs Choice of Fatherless Children

"When Nobody's Home..." sheds light on how traumatic experiences in childhood may impact ones choice to engage in long term drug/alcohol dependency to meet certain social/emotional needs. The common denominator that I uncovered or discovered with my client’s is that over 90% were either abandoned, abused, or neglected by their paternal caretaker. I also discovered that this behavioral neglect occurred in all ethnicities and socioeconomic classes. This information informed me that if our main caregivers do not meet the majority of our social/emotional needs then the child(victim) will seek other ways to get those needs met, usually in a tragic manner. This book is published to expressly create a resource that can be used by people in the helping professions—by Counselors, Social Workers, Deputy Probation Officers, and Educators—so that more people in recovery from addiction get both clean and free and stay that way! A person can take back their power, get clean, and stay emotionally free. And that is what I think of as “The Final Step.”

Michael S. Oden MA, DPO II is a Deputy Probation Officer in the State of California with a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology. For 15 years he has supervised and interviewed over eight thousand clients who were under the jurisdiction of the criminal justice system. Michael believes in helping individuals who have had issues with substance dependency for most of their lives. He has dedicated his professional life to championing the belief that gaining emotional freedom from addiction is possible. He is a counselor in private practice, author, speaker, consultant and workshop facilitator for organizations. He developed The Needs Based Method(R) a therapeutic tool and is the founder of The Final Step.