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

Help for Parents NOW!

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