All You Need To Know About Codependency

A psychological construct that involves a kind of unhealthy relationship which people share with those who are closer to them is called co-dependency. This blog focuses on the various ways codependency can be a great problem in relationships. But then you must be strong...

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How to Create Your Own Meditation Space in Your Home

Meditation has many advantages and the primary ones being recharging the mind and body and also improving clarity and boosting concentration. In case you are already meditating, the blog shows how you can still improve it. First of all, you need to create a private place...

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Neurofeedback and Young Adults

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The Role of Community in a Treatment Setting

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The Magic of Sand Tray

Sandtray therapy is a valued medium I use to help young adults who are trauma survivors and/or are struggling with addiction. At the Claudia Black Young Adult Center I use it with clients with early childhood complex trauma, those with attachment disruption often associated...

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Repeated Exposure to Porn in Childhood Increases Risk of Sex Addiction

By Joe Turner In a world which is becoming increasingly reliant on the internet, exposure to the explicit sexual content lurking in its dark corner is inevitable. The fact that we have a world of information at our fingertips is as harmful as it is useful, especially...

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What Do I Do With My Child?

College can be an exciting time for many young adults; it is where they experience many firsts, including a new lifestyle, friends, roommates, exposure to new cultures and a wide-variety of principles and thinking. Unfortunately, when many students are unable to handle these...

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Know with Claudia Black - Why you need to have addiction?

Alcohol addiction or alcoholism is defined as the obsessive and unmanageable use of alcohol regardless of its negative impact on a person’s life. Individuals suffering from alcoholism frequently drink to excess, leaving their bodies dependent on the substance and...

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Eliminate Your Fears and Doubts about Drug Addiction

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Free Flight!

Details on the Free Flight OfferAdmission must occur between November 1 and November 30, 2016.Offer is available for a one-way airline ticket for the patient to fly to Phoenix, AZ for inpatient treatment.Flight arrangements will be made through our corporate travel agent...

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Becoming Fearless with the Help of Al-Anon

  By the Mother of a Past Claudia Black - Young Adult Drug Treatment PatientAs my daughter does her recovery work from drug and alcohol addiction and anxiety, I too work my recovery through Al-Anon. I won’t go into details of how my daughter and I both came to this...

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Inpatient, Outpatient, or IOP?

Most psychiatrists and behavioral health professionals agree that addiction is a complex disorder caused by a combination of genetic, environmental, and behavioral factors. It can also vary in intensity; The DSM-5 defines addiction as a spectrum disorder that can be...

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The Real Impact of Rape Culture and Sexual Trauma

When bystanders pulled Stanford University swimmer and Olympic hopeful Brock Turner away from the woman he was sexually assaulting behind a fraternity house dumpster, he laughed. When the judge in the resulting sexual assault trial handed down a sentence much more lenient...

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Marijuana Addiction is No Joke

Can a person really become addicted to marijuana?  You never hear of any dying from daily pot use. You certainly don’t hear about it in the same way you hear about deaths and other tragedies caused by alcohol and other “harder” drugs. And, there are some serious medical conditions for which marijuana is now believed to be an effective...

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