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• Archive: 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.