Family Life: Books
Understanding Addiction and Recovery Through a Child's Eye
Jerry Moe, an addictions professional and National Director of Children’s Programs at the Betty Ford Center, offers rich and wide-reaching collection of poignant stories and humorous anecdotes about children and teens who are navigating their way through the healing process. This provides a way for young people to know they are not alone and receive support on their journey.
Jerry Moe, December 2007
Publisher: Health Communications
It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up with Addiction as Youngsters, Adolescents, and Adults
This is Claudia Black's bestselling classic, revised, on the experience of being raised in an addictive household. While continuing to recognize alcohol as the primary addiction within families, this revised edition of It Will Never Happen to Me, extends concepts to include addictive disorders involving other drugs, money, food, sex, and work.
Claudia Black PhD– December 22, 2020
Publisher: Central Recovery Press
"Dear David: Dealing with My Son’s Addiction One Letter at a time"
If you are a parent impacted by the substance use of your child, this is a good read for you. Martha Wegner shares her journey of recovery as a parent through her blog letters she wrote to her son David. The 216 pages takes you on her journey as she and her son strive to become healthy.
Martha Wegner - 2019
Publisher: Calumet Editions
Everything Changes: Help for Families of Newly Recovering Addicts
This is a compassionate, user-friendly handbook for family and friends piloting the many challenges that come with a loved one's new-found sobriety and recovery journey. Everything Changes eases fears and uncertainty by teaching families of newly recovering addicts how to navigate the stressful early months of recovery. She outlines both the physical and psychological changes that the recovery journey contains. She offers practical tools to help family members and friends.
Author: Beverly Conyers
Publisher: Hazelden April 2009
Unspoken Legacy: Addressing the Impact of Trauma and Addiction within the Family
Trauma and addictive disorders are often a result of psychological injuries experienced as a child. These injuries typically produce long-term and harmful generational consequences on loved ones and other family members. Claudia Black offers an intense portrait of a broken family system. She explores how addiction and trauma develop and how their damaging repetition uproots and frequently destroys one's family tree.
Author: Claudia Black, PhD.
Publisher: Central Recovery Press, January 16, 2018