While hundreds of thousands of people are in recovery from chemical dependency, co-dependency, and adult child issues, our communities continue to be impacted by addiction. Heroin, cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, and marijuana use is rampant throughout our communities. But historically, the number one abused drug is alcohol. Today, compared to the time of the writing of the first edition of It Will Never Happen To Me, we seldom refer to someone as alcoholic, and recognize that if people are addicted they are often addicted to more than one substance. We use phrases like chemically dependent or addict to recognize that irrespective of one's predominant substance addiction, they need to refrain from the use of alcohol and other drugs. This has occurred for two reasons. The first being it was recognized that many alcoholics were actively addicted to at least one other substance. Secondly, that even if they did not show signs of a second addiction, they needed to refrain from the use of other substances because those other substances would often lead them to relapse in their alcoholism or to engage in a second addiction. For these reasons, the words alcoholic, addict and chemically dependent will be used interchangeably throughout this book. It will never happen to me is spoken by all who have been raised in a family where one or both parents have a problem with addiction. In addictive families most children move through adolescence appearing to survive the problems and hardships of life. They abide by the laws Don't Talk, Don't Trust, Don't Feel. The survival techniques practiced as children contribute to a variety of problems in adulthood among them depression, inability to maintain intimate relationships, marrying an addict, or becoming addicted. Keeping the heart and soul of the original It Will Never Happen to Me, this revised and updated version moves the reader from alcoholism to addiction and addictive disorders, and expands upon: Family rules Don't Talk, Don't Trust, Don't Feel; Family roles Responsible Child, Placater, Adjuster, Acting Out Child;Family violence;Shame. While continuing to recognize alcohol as the primary addiction within families, this edition broadens the concepts to include addictive disorders such as other drugs, money related addictions, food disorders, relationship, sex and work addictions.

It Will Never Happen to Me : Children of Alcoholics as Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults

Claudia Black

MAC Publishing

When Repeat After Me was first published in the 1980’s, it was a time when adult children of alcoholic families were coming out of the closet by the thousands. Until that time these were people who were silently making their way through adulthood not understanding why they were so unsatisfied and unhappy when "everything seemed okay," or why some one thing, person or place "was never enough." For many there was a chronic gnawing sense that something was missing. This great number of people happily took on the identity of being an ACA or ACOA (Adult Child of Alcoholic). They were grateful to have a framework in which to understand and conceptualize their experience. They had been given a language in which to voice their experiences. Yet what was true for this particular population could be generalized to people from other types of troubled families. They were from homes where there were abuses, other addictions, compulsive behaviors or mental illness — homes that for whatever the reasons were characterized by loss and shame. Repeat After Me was written in the spirit of offering all who were raised in troubled families a process of self-exploration, insight and healing that would lead to a positive change in their lives.  As adults began that process of asking how their childhood was influencing their present day life, the intent was never one of blame but of insight and understanding. It has been the author’s contention that we repeat the life scripts of our family as a result of internalized beliefs and behaviors that were either modeled for us or were a part of our survivorship. We cannot put a painful past history behind us without first owning it. It is not enough to say I came from an alcoholic family or an abusive family. We must go beyond that acknowledgment to see how our internalized beliefs and behaviors have shaped us to be the person we are today. With that in mind Repeat After Me was written.  Repeat After Me is not a book that explains how problems come to be as much as it is a book that takes you through a process of letting go of hurtful beliefs and behaviors. While insight is often the precursor to change, insight alone is not enough for most people to create change. People need to believe they deserve positive change and they need to develop skills that make change occur. While many of the changes in this second edition of Repeat After Me are subtle, it is written to support the reader’s belief in their personal worth and assist them in identifying and focusing on skills. The knowledge that comes in owning the past and connecting it to the present is vital to developing empathy for the strength of both our defenses and skills. It also helps us to lessen our shame and not hold ourselves accountable for the pain we have carried. When we understand the reasons for why we have lived our life as we have, that understanding fuels our ongoing healing. The change we want to create in our life is made most directly as a result of letting go of old, hurtful belief systems and learning new skills. Repeat After Me guides you in this process.

Repeat after Me II

A blueprint designed to be used by the professional when working with groups or individuals dealing with Anger, this guide offers twelve time-limited sessions, step-by-step instructions, and reproducible handouts that are appropriate for each session. There are opportunities to explore: 
How anger is expressed Its purpose The possible interplay of anger with alcohol and drugs Intervention strategies 
Handouts include: Role of Anger – Alcohol/Drugs/Anger – Stress Reduction – Moving on with New Skills and many more. Included is the Imageries CD of four structured meditations to assist one to relax, to focus on a specific issue and/or to develop insight. 
Originally created as a tool to use with Claudia Black’s video Anger. However the materials stand on their own should you opt not to use the video. 
Other Claudia Black materials that would enhance these twelve sessions include her books Repeat After Me, and Changing Course.

Anger Guide: A Blueprint for Twelve Structured Sessions

Black, Claudia

The Relapse Toolkit is designed for use by counselors and therapists who work in the addictions field and address issues of relapse and relapse management. It can be used effectively within a group orientation or with an individual participant. This Toolkit contains 38 modules, each with pertinent didactic, reproducible handouts, and a "paint-by-the-numbers" format. There are several sessions that include the opportunity for a guided imagery. All imageries are included on a compact disc that comes with the book. 
Session titles include Overconfidence, Control, Feelings, Relationships, Multi-addictions, Secrets, plus many more to choose from and create a format for your specific needs. Sessions can be condensed or expanded by use of opening and closing rituals, time offered to complete exercises, and depth of discussion. Sessions can be used in the order presented or simply pick and choose those that are most relevant to the participants. The author encourages the user to be creative, know the needs of the participants, and bring their own style of work into the process.

Relapse Toolkit

Health, Fitness & Dieting

This book is designed as a resource for the clinician versed in identifying and treating depression. Hopefully, it will be a source of inspiration to busy clinicians and serve as a time-saver by providing strategies and exercises for use with clients experiencing depression. This workbook is composed of six sections: Depression – An Overview Depression History Strategies Cognitive Strategies Affective Strategies Behavioral Strategies Conceptive Spiritual Strategies In each of the strategies sections, ideas are given for structured interventions derived from the use of more than 50 handouts. These reproducible handouts and a compact disc, Imageries, are included in this workbook. The disc contains four imageries: Relaxation Exercise, Inner Child Affirmation, Inner Source of Wisdom and Letting Go and Receiving.

Depression Strategies: Practical Tools for Professionals Treating Depression 1st edition by Black, Claudia (2003) Spiral-bound

Addiction passes through families generationally, and is said to be the gift that goes on giving. The use of Family Strategies is an opportunity for the gift to become that of recovery, the possibility of changing the individual, the immediate family, and the intergenerational transmission of addictive disorders. Change begins with one person. From a systematic viewpoint, when one person changes the way he or she functions within the family system, that system will change. This is readily evident when addiction enters a family system, and it is just as apparent when recovery enters that system. 
In a therapeutic setting it is easy for the practitioner, the addicted person, and the family to view the addicted person as the identified client, the addicted person is the predominant focus. Family Strategies facilitates shifting perspective to the family members as clients. Giving principal consideration to the family system or the primary relationship with the addicted person makes them the focus. 
The strategies presented are those proven most effective in primary family systems therapy when addiction is either still active or the addicted person is in early recovery, irrespective of the type of addiction, whether it is substance addiction, behavior, or process addiction. 
This workbook is composed of five sections: · Viewing the Family Addiction · Stepping Out of the Shadows · Recognizing the Family Dance · Developing Emotional Clarity · Walking the Path of Recovery 
A sampling of sessions included are: · Codependency As An Addiction · Sharing the Disease · Giving Up Control · Role Patterns · Identifying Boundary Extremes · Impaired Family · Portrait of Feelings · Shame Attacks · Emotional Sociogram · Drama Triangle · Portrait of Recovery · Codependency First Step 
This book is intended for use by clinicians, addiction counselors, and mental health care practitioners who are already skilled in understanding addictive disorders and their impact on families, and those who work with a family member or members in a relationship with someone actively in addiction or in recovery. It is used quite effectively with spouses, partners, parents, and adolescent or adult age children. In many sessions it is appropriate to include the addicted person, but that is at the facilitator's discretion. 
In many of the strategies sections, ideas and formats are presented for structured interventions. The use of handouts in the form of written exercises, checklists, sentence stems, structured dialogues and/or art activities is an integral part of this therapeutic technique. All handouts are designed for clinicians to reproduce and use without restriction as to copyright permission. 
The audio CD, Letting Go Imageries, offers meditations on healing and recovery for anyone involved in a troubled family system and it can be used in a group or individual setting.

Family Strategies: Practical Tools for Professionals Treating Families Impacted by Addiction

Addiction & Recovery

For each state covered, there are two maps: the first shows transportation infrastructure (railroads, highways and cities); the second shows traffic density, signalling systems, and station names. This volume covers Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. With index. 219 pages.

Railroad Maps. The West.

RAILROADS

Railroad maps : [highways, cities, stations, signals, tonnage].

Railroad Maps. The Midwest. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, West Virginia

Anon`

For each state covered, there are two maps: the first shows transportation infrastructure (railroads, highways and cities); the second shows traffic density, signalling systems, and station names. This volume covers Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. With index. 217 pages.

Railroad Maps The East: Highways, Cities, Stations, Signals, Tonnage

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