Post on 12-Feb-2017
Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Therapy
Robert J. Meyers PhD
WHAT IS CRAFT?
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C.R.A.F.T.Community Reinforcement
Approach and Family Training
Helps you help your loved one with their substance abuse
challenges
C.R.A.F.T.
benefits
Learn ways to encourage your loved one to enter addiction
treatment
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Reduce your loved ones alcohol and drug use whether they’ve
entered treatment or not
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De-stress and improve your home life
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substance abuse comes in all shapes
and sizes
intervention and treatment practices
vary as well
in fact, most programs
proven their results
yet everyone says they can help your
loved one get sober
so how do you know
what to believe?
CRAFT different
several comprehensive
studies have demonstrated
CRAFT’s efficacy
Engaging the Unmotivated in Treatment for Alcohol Problems: A Comparison of Three Strategies for Intervention Through Family MembersWilliam R. Miller, Robert J. Myers, J. Scott Tonigan –University of New Mexico(c) 1999 American Psychological Association, Inc.
Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Therapy (CRAFT): Engaging Unmotivated Drug Users in TreatmentRobert J. Meyers, William R. Miller, Dina E. Hill, J. Scott Tonigan – University of New Mexico(c) 1999 Elsevier Science Inc.
A Randomized Trial of Two Methods for Engaging Treatment-Refusing Drug Users Through Concerned Significant OthersRobert J. Meyers, William R. Miller, Jane Ellen Smith, J. Scott Tonigan(c) 2002 Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Engaging resistant adolescents in drug abuse treatmentHolly Barret Waldron, Sheryl Kern-Jones, Charles W. Turner, Thomas R. Peterson, Timothy J. Ozechowski(c) 2007 Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Community reinforcement training for family and significant others of drug abusers: a unilateral intervention to increase treatment entry of drug usersKimberly C. Kirby, Douglas B. Marlowe, David S. Festinger, Kerry A. Garvey, Vincent LaMonaca(c) 1999 Drug and Alcohol Dependence
CRAFT evidence-based
CRAFTworks
WHAT should craft be used
FOR?
cRAFT works across multiple substance
abuse conditions including...
Alcohol Cocaine
Opiates Cannabis
and other stimulants
when should craft be used?
HereCRAFT WORKS
FI R S T S I GNS O F S U B S T A NCE A B U S E
P R O FE S S I O NA L HE L P I S NE E D E D
GE T T I NG P R O FE S S I O NA L HE LP
CRAFT helps you have empowering
conversations with your loved one
CRAFT WORKS
FI R S T S I GNS O F S U B S T A NCE A B U S E
P R O FE S S I O NA L HE L P I S NE E D E D
CRAFT reduces your loved ones alcohol and
drug use whether they’ve entered treatment or not
CRAFT WORKS
CRAFT can help you get your loved one to accept treatment
CRAFT WORKS
P R O FE S S I O NA L HE L P I S NE E D E D
Success rate of getting someone into treatment
20% · AL-ANON
64% · CRAFT
30% · INTERVENTIONs
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - funded studyPublished in the Journal of Substance Abuse, 10, 3, 291-308.
CRAFT WORKS
74% of concerned family members succeeded in getting their loved ones into treatment
using CRAFT methods
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - funded studyPublished in the Journal of Substance Abuse, 10, 3, 291-308.
CRAFT WORKS
“With CRAFT, family members learn ways to lower loved ones’ defenses and encourage them to speak candidly. The advice essentially boils down to simple steps like asking open-ended questions, complimenting positive behaviors, and echoing the person’s concerns in a nonjudgmental way.”
“Next, they learn to devise ways to improve their home life (without fixing or minimizing the ill effects of the drinking or drug use). When the struggling loved one feels understood and safe, the reasoning goes, he or she will be more willing to be vulnerable, to seek help.”The End of Hitting Rock Bottom, Burt Helm
While your loved one is in treatment and after, CRAFT helps family
members de-stress and improve their home life
CRAFT WORKS
W hi l e GE T T I NG P R O FE S S I O NA L HE LP
100% of family members and loved ones reported significant
reductions in anger, anxiety, depression, and negative
physical symptoms
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - funded studyPublished in the Journal of Substance Abuse, 10, 3, 291-308.
CRAFT WORKS
how does craft
compare to al-anon?
AL-ANON CRAFT
Self Caretake time to focus
on yourself
AL-ANON CRAFT
Powerless... Powerful......against loved one’s
substance abuse
AL-ANON CRAFT
Detach with loveLet your
loved one hit ‘rock bottom’
Stronger togetherHelp your loved one
get treatment
With CRAFT, families play a critical role in helping their
loved one get better
“Detach felt like crap – even the most successful parent had a daughter in danger, freezing
out on the streets.”
Former Al-Anon parent
“So precious to me to have some answers beyond "just detach" and "let him hit
bottom". I feared his bottom was death, and I am so relieved to know I can do
more to encourage recovery. Bless you Dr. Meyers for spreading the word.”
Daisy
“Perhaps the counselor was having a bad day, but this particular night he followed his grim opening with: ‘It's nice that you are here and think that you can do something, but the people you love are going to die’
At that moment, I had one thought and it was: ‘F*** this shit’ If the people I love are going to die I need to get my ass out of this meeting and spend as much time with them as I can while they are living.
I found information about CRAFT and it made sense.
Because of your work and CRAFT, I feel at peace with my relationship. He has not entered treatment, but he keeps in contact with me and he knows that I support him where he is.
I don't condone the drug use, but I don't let that aspect of his life define him to me. Maybe he will go to treatment, maybe he won't. But if he dies today, he will know he was loved and there will be nothing left I wish I had said.
And I think anyone can hope for in any relationship.”
Anonymous letter to Dr. Robert J. Meyers,Louisville KY
CRAFT evolutionCRA CRAFT
1970’ s 1990’ s 2015
Community Reinforcement
Approach
Community Reinforcement Approach &
Family Therapy
Developed for parents -the most influential
people in their child’s life even into young
adulthood
“one of the most cost-effective alcohol treatment programs currently available”
Developed for family members to play a
powerful role in getting their loved one to accept treatment
CRAFT for parents to address their
child’s substance abuse
PARENT CRAFT
In the late 1990’s, CRAFT was developed at the University of
New Mexico by Dr. Robert Meyers, Ph.D. and colleagues
Robert J. Meyers PhD
In 2015, Parent CRAFT was created with the help of Dr. Robert Meyers to
empower parents to protect their children from addiction, accidental
overdose and death