Sunday Speaker - Dr. Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown, Ph.D., a leading pioneer in the adult child movement is this year’s keynote speaker. Dr. Brown will give two presentations.
”Dr. Brown will discuss “Adult Children: Healing the Wounds No One Can See.”
Parental addictions and mental illnesses of all kinds are traumas that can arrest healthy self-development and skew a child’s view of relationship towards a need for self-protection and defense. What is the impact of living with trauma, and what is the process of healing the wounds that often can’t be seen or known? What is the process of recovery for the adult child that will enable a deeper sense within of safety and freedom?
Stephanie Brown, Ph.D. is a clinician, teacher, author, researcher and consultant in the fields of addiction and recovery, including adult children of alcoholics. She founded the Alcohol Clinic at Stanford University Medical Center in 1977 and was one of the founding members of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA)
Dr. Brown is the author of eleven books including Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Developmental Perspective (Wiley, 1988), Safe Passage: Recovery for Adult Children of Alcoholics (Wiley, 1992) and her newest, Speed: Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster and Overcoming Our Fear of Slowing Down (Berkely/Penguin, 2014).
Dr. Brown is a licensed psychologist with over 35 years of clinical experience. She is an internationally recognized expert on the trauma and the treatment of alcoholics and their families and is especially well known for her pioneering work in the theory and treatment of adult children of alcoholics and the process of recovery for addicted families.
She is the founder and Director of The Addictions Institute in Menlo Park, California.
Download - Presentation
Link to .mp3 audio - Adult Children - Healing the Wounds No One Can See
