About Claudia Black

Claudia Black, PhD is a world-renowned expert on addiction and codependency, best-selling author, and trainer internationally recognized for her pioneering and contemporary work with family systems and addictive disorders. Since the 1970s, Dr. Black's work has encompassed the impact of addiction on young and adult children. Her writings and teachings have become a standard in the fi eld of addictions. She is the Clinical Architect of the Claudia Black Center for Young Adults and a Senior Fellow at The Meadows Treatment Center in Arizona. She is one of the original founders and serves on the advisory board for the National Association of Children of Addiction, and the advisory council of the Eluna Foundation and its development of Camp Mariposa, a camp for children impacted by addiction.