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    It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up with Addiction As Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults
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    It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up with Addiction As Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults
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    It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up with Addiction As Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults

    By Claudia Black

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    With her reassuring and informative approach, Claudia Black expertly identifies common issues faced by children who grew up in alcoholic families--shame, neglect, unreasonable role expectations, and physical abuse.

    First published 20 years ago, It Will Never Happen to Me is the definitive book/workbook for adult children of alcoholics.With her reassuring and informative approach, Claudia Black expertly identifies common issues faced by children who grew up in alcoholic families--shame, neglect, unreasonable role expectations, and physical abuse. Using narratives and profiles, she describes survival techniques characteristic of children raised in alcoholic families, including the unspoken laws of don't talk, don't trust, and don't feel. First explaining how such learned responses cause difficulties in adulthood, Black carefully guides readers in identifying self-defeating, destructive behaviors and finding a healthier, happier way to live.Key features and benefits: a proven seller by a respected recovery authorcontains easy-to-follow, useful exercisescan be used by individuals or in a therapeutic setting.<.ul>
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHazelden Publishing
    Release dateJun 3, 2009
    ISBN9781592857715
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    It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up with Addiction As Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults
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    Claudia Black

    Claudia Black, PhD, is the clinical architect of and actively involved in the Claudia Black Young Adult Center at The Meadows. She works with the executive director and clinical director and their team assessing and enhancing the quality of the program. She is frequently on site speaking with clients and family members. She serves as a Senior Fellow and has been a clinical consultant at The Meadows Treatment Center in Arizona since 1998.  Claudia Black’s seminal work with children impacted by substance abuse in the late 1970s created the foundation for the “adult child” movement. Today Claudia is a renowned author and trainer internationally recognized for her pioneering and contemporary work with family systems and addictive disorders. She sits on the Advisory Board for the National Association of Children of Addiction, and the Advisory Committee for Camp Mariposa, The Eluna Foundation’s national addiction prevention and mentoring program. Her work and her passion has been ageless and offers a foundation for those impacted by addiction to recover, and gives our professional field a library of both depth and breadth. Dr. Black is the author of It Will Never Happen to Me, Changing Course, and her most recent book, Unspoken Legacy. She has produced several audio CDs and over twenty DVDs. All of Dr. Black's materials are available through Central Recovery Press on her website www.claudiablack.com.

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