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For Family and Friends
Help yourself, and help your loved one.
SMART Recovery would like to welcome you and help you find the information and resources you can use to help yourself, as well your loved one.
CRAFT
For concerned significant others, SMART Recovery recommends Community Reinforcement Approach & Family Training (CRAFT). CRAFT aims to teach family and friends self-protection and non-confrontational skills to help their addicted loved one find recovery.
CRAFT groups may be difficult to find, as this approach is very new, but more information can be found in an excellent book Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening by Robert J. Meyers, Ph.D. and Brenda L. Wolfe, Ph.D.
 Get Your Loved One Sober offers a revolutionary program for those who are seeking recovery for their loved ones. CRAFT boasts a phenomenal success rate getting people into treatment and recovery.
An alternative to Al-Anon's 12-Step tradition and detacthment recommendations and the Johnson Institute's confrontational interventions, the CRAFT program is based on non-confrontational and proven behavioral principles like finding and rewarding positive behaviors. It is a program congruent with SMART Recovery.
The book gives the reader tools and instructions for changing their interactions with their loved one, which in turn changes the loved one's behavior. In repeated clinical trials, CRAFT's approach proved twice as likely as the Johnson intervention and six times as likely as Al-Anon to get a loved one into treatment.
 With CRAFT, arranging for one's own safety and finding a happier life for one's self takes priority. Getting a loved one to moderate, choose sobriety, or go into treatment are then offered as roads to a better relationship.
CRAFT was developed by Robert Meyers, Ph.D. Dr. Meyers has been in the addiction field for 33 years with 23 of those years being at the University of New Mexico. He is currently the director of Robert J. Meyers, Ph.D. & Associates and a Research Associate Professor Emeritus in Psychology at the University of New Mexico's Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addiction. He has been involved in over a dozen clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health, including Project Match and the Clinical Trials Network.
CRAFT Training Update
Dr. Meyers will be holding a 2 ½ day CRAFT training on October 4th, 5th & 6th. This will be his last CRAFT training for 2010. The training will be held at Chestnut Health Services Training Center in Bloomington Illinois. Final details will be announced soon on both Dr. Meyer's website and the Chestnut Health Services website. Participants will be limited and all participants will receive signed copies of his book “Get Your Loved One Sober.”
Get the brochure here.
Resources at SMART Recovery
SMART Recovery provides a Concerned Significant Others (For Families and Friends) area on our messageboard to provide online peer support. You are also welcome to use any of our online resources and even attend our meetings if you choose.
Things
to Do If Your Loved One is Addicted to Alcohol and/or Drugs.
The above article is also available here in PDF format.
SMART Recovery offers a list of Treatment Providers and Programs.
Links to Information
HBO's Addiction Series - Information regarding CRAFT
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