My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease: A Child's View: Living with Addiction

by Claudia Black PhD

Overview

Children who grow up in addicted families usually learn at a very young age that it is not safe for them to openly talk about their family experiences. This updated edition of My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease gives children ages five to twelve the opportunity to work through their feelings of loss, loneliness, fear, and frustration, both verbally and through drawing exercises. Through sharing their thoughts and feelings, children can develop a better understanding of addiction and how it affects their parent(s). My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease has been used to help thousands of children. It has become a springboard to help children from families ravaged by addiction to experience their own recovery process.
• Written by one of the world’s foremost experts on how addiction affects families.
• Written from a child’s point of view.
• The only book of its kind, with original pictures and stories, drawn and written by children age five through fourteen who were treated by Dr. Black.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781942094753
Publisher:	Central Recovery Press
Publication date:	09/04/2018
Pages:	84
Sales rank:	88,332
Product dimensions:	10.50(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.00(d)
Age Range:	4 - 10 Years

About the Author

Claudia Black, PhD is a world-renowned expert on addiction and codependency, best-selling author, and trainer internationally recognized for her pioneering and contemporary work with family systems and addictive disorders. Since the 1970s, Dr. Black’s work has encompassed the impact of addiction on young and adult children. Her writings and teachings have become a standard in the field of addictions. Claudia holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Social Psychology from Columbia Pacific University, and a Masters Degree in Social Work and Bachelor of Arts Degree in Social Welfare from the University of Washington. Claudia 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. She serves on the Advisory Board for the National Association of Children of Alcoholics, and the Advisory Council of the Moyer Foundation.