- Topic Areas:
- Addiction | Family Therapy | Trauma | Invited Address
- Category:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 2013
- Faculty:
- Claudia Black, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:02:07
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date :
- Dec 14, 2013
Description
Description:
When people think of trauma they often think of acute dramatic situations, such as a natural disaster or acts of terrorism. Yet, the majority of people who experience trauma experience a more subtle and chronic form that exists within their own family. Beginning with a genogram, Claudia Black, Ph.D., will give a portrait of addiction in the family, offering an overlay of how adverse child experiences, emotional abandonment and blatant violence are all aspects of the trauma. She will discuss shame screens, the ways people attempt to gain power over or succumb to their emotional pain, incorporating how trauma is connected to multi-addictive and co-occurring disorders.
Educational Objectives:
- Identify how the trauma responses to flight, fight and freeze become acted out in the family impacted by addiction.
- Describe both Big T and Little T traumas that frequently occur in a family impacted by addiction.
- Explain the relationship of trauma to multiaddictive and co-occurring disorders.
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
