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Case 1: 44-Year-Old Woman with Addictions
Struggles with alcohol, co-dependency, and shopping addiction.
History of abusive relationships; now focused on personal growth.
Clean and sober for 5 months but refuses recovery programs due to shyness and self-consciousness.
Continues to display co-dependency and low self-worth.
Seeks validation through relationships.
Hesitant to join group recovery due to sensitivity to others' energy and stigma concerns.
Introduce psycho-educational tools, homework assignments, and possibly group therapy.
Encourage goal-setting and focus on personal strengths.
Help define needs, set boundaries, and confront negative core beliefs.
Consider smaller, safer support groups or alternative 12-step programs.
A women’s group has been helpful and well-received.
Experienced abuse and neglect; lives with a loving but alcoholic guardian.
Suffers from low self-esteem, anger issues, and believes he is "cursed."
Therapy has focused on building self-worth and addressing trauma over two years.
Recently lost hope in his future.
Help him recognize his power and choices.
Focus on immediate needs and anger management through expressive therapies.
Strengthen external life before deep internal processing.
Address fears around being removed from his current home.
Displays growing anger, especially toward younger sisters.
Lives in a family with an alcoholic father (in denial) and an overfunctioning mother.
Minimizes or denies issues with his father but exhibits anger and emotional distress.
Support recognition and regulation of anger.
Explore the father’s role in therapy to address family dynamics.
Manage the risk of increased family tension by persistently involving the father in therapy.
Parents have attended therapy sessions and later involved their teen daughters.
Showed improvement after completing assigned tasks.
Therapist considering shift to full family therapy due to progress.
Accept the family's willingness to include children in sessions.
Clearly define the goals of therapy to maintain structure and avoid confusion.
Claudia Black, Ph.D., is internationally recognized for her pioneering and cutting-edge work with family systems and addictive disorders. Her work with children impacted by drug and alcohol addiction in the late 1970s fueled the advancement of the codependency and developmental trauma fields. Dr. Black’s passion to help young adults overcome obstacles and strengthen families built the foundation of the Claudia Black Young Adult Center. Not only is Dr. Black the clinical architect of this groundbreaking treatment program, she is also actively involved with the treatment team, patients, and their families.
Claudia is the author of It Will Never Happen To Me, Changing Course, My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has A Disease, Repeat After Me, It's Never Too Late To Have A Happy Childhood, Relapse Toolkit, A Hole in the Sidewalk, Depression Strategies, Straight Talk, The Stamp Game, Family Strategies, Anger Strategies, Deceived: Facing Sexual Betrayal, Lies and Secrets, The Truth Begins With Youand her newest title, Intimate Treason: Healing the Trauma for Partners Confronting Sex Addiction. She has produced seven audio CDs addressing issues of addiction and recovery. They are A Time for Healing, Putting the Past Behind, Triggers, Emotional Baggage, Trauma in the Addicted Family, Imageries and Letting Go Imageries. She also has over 20 DVDs for professionals to use working with families and clients.
Jay Haley (M.A., 1953, Stanford University) was Director of Family Therapy Institute of Washington, D.C. He was one of the leading exponents of the strategic/interpersonal approach to family therapy. Haley served as Director of the Family Experiment Project at the Mental Research Institute and as Director of Family Therapy Research at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. He has authoered seven books, co-authored two and edited five. Additionally, he has more than 40 contributions to professional journals and books. Haley is the former editor of Family Process, and the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of The Milton H. Erickson Foundation.
Judd Marmor, MD, was an American psychiatrist known for his role in removing homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Judd was an adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California in LA, was Franz Alexander Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. he has practices medicine for more than 50 years, having graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1933. He is past president of the American Psychiatric Association, American Academy of Psychoanalysis, and The Group for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, and The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. He is recipient of the Bowis Award for Outstanding Achievements in Leadership in the Field of Psychiatry from the American College of Psychiatrists and the Founders Award from the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Marmor served on the editorial board of 14 journals.He authored five books and co-authored one. He has written or co-written more than 300 scientific papers. Much of his writing has been on psychoanalysis and human sexuality.