With the major changes that have occurred in the delivery of addictions treatment, the availability of family programming has lessened or become non-existent. As a professional you will find this video an important tool that will allow you, in one or two sessions, to focus on primary treatment issues with family members, individually or in groups.

Claudia Black says: “I believe that any experienced professional who has worked in the chemical dependency field would agree just how important it is for family members to experience recovery. Not only is the family deserving of recovery but their recovery has a direct impact on the ongoing recovery of the addicted person.”

Claudia presents three particular areas that greatly impact the family:

• Powerlessness: Recognizing that they are powerless over the disease
• Unmanageability: that their lives have become unmanageable as a result of the addiction and their codependency
• Tough Love: To recognize their enabling and to commit to non-enabling behaviors
  
  

She uses pictures drawn by young family members to illustrate how the addiction has impacted the family and interactive graphics that underline specific points of her presentation.

Addiction in the Family has been produced to allow you to show this film in either the:

• Interactive Format - (Claudia's preference) where the video can be stopped at two particular cues (Interactive Opportunity) and a short discussion takes place that pertains to issues that she has just covered.
• Straight Forward Format: The video is shown in its entirety and a discussion follows.

If you deal with addictions and you believe that the family must be involved in the recovery process, then this video is made for your use.

Running Time: 28 min.

Claudia Black is a Ph.D., and a world renowned author, lecturer, and specialist on addiction and family systems.