26. Addictions, Childhood Adversity and Safety

Description

Discusses the ways addictive and compulsive behaviors are played out in everyday life to help develop understanding about the connection between addictive behavior and problems with emotional management secondary to stress, adversity and trauma.

• HANDOUT: Connecting Childhood Adversity to Symptoms Now
• RESOURCE: Trauma, Adversity and Addictive Behavior: Studies of childhood adversity and trauma show close connections between these prior events and later substance abuse disorders, self-harming behaviors, risk-taking behaviors, and addiction to trauma.