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*Unique: an empirically supported guide to working with significant others of substance users. *Program shown to help users use less at home, help get users into treatment, and improve significant others' emotional health. *Wide audience: from psychologists to social workers, appeal will go beyond addiction treatment specialists. *Practical, hands-on design: features checklists, pointers on handling pitfalls, and more. *Meyers is an active speaker and coauthor of a trade book, Get Your Loved One Sober.

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What can you do for people with a substance-abusing loved one who refuses to get help? Quite a lot, as it turns out... Smith and Meyers describe the CRAFT method that they have shown to be highly effective not only in reducing family members' distress, but also in getting their loved one into treatment. Their clearly written and well-organized narrative provides step-by-step guidelines for delivering this evidence-based approach. - William R. Miller, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, USA I wish I had had this book years ago to give my staff in the alcoholism treatment clinic, and I also recommend it to counselors and therapists in more general settings. An invaluable contribution! - Carlo C. DiClemente, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland--Baltimore County, USA This book is 'must' reading for all current and future practitioners in the field of substance abuse, and should be a required text in master's-level substance abuse courses in clinical psychology, social work, and other helping professions. - Allen Rubin, PhD, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, USA Years of research show that the approach described in this book works. CRAFT is more effective than our traditional methods for dealing with this difficult clinical challenge. - Timothy O'Farrell, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA

What can you do for people with a substance-abusing loved one who refuses to get help? Quite a lot, as it turns out... Smith and Meyers describe the CRAFT method that they have shown to be highly effective not only in reducing family members' distress, but also in getting their loved one into treatment. Their clearly written and well-organized narrative provides step-by-step guidelines for delivering this evidence-based approach. - William R. Miller, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, USA I wish I had had this book years ago to give my staff in the alcoholism treatment clinic, and I also recommend it to counselors and therapists in more general settings. An invaluable contribution! - Carlo C. DiClemente, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, USA This book is 'must' reading for all current and future practitioners in the field of substance abuse, and should be a required text in master's-level substance abuse courses in clinical psychology, social work, and other helping professions. - Allen Rubin, PhD, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, USA Years of research show that the approach described in this book works. CRAFT is more effective than our traditional methods for dealing with this difficult clinical challenge. - Timothy O'Farrell, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA This is an overview and comprehensive step-by-step guide to the implementation of the Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) program for people with alcohol and drug problems...The book utilises numerous case examples, provides helpful suggestions on how best to broach difficult subjects, and ways to teach well-tested motivational, behavioral, and cognitive interventions that would be useful to a range of health and social care professionals...This program must be recommended for its emphasis on empowering family members, used to experiencing high levels of helplessness, as well as the strong evidence for the effectiveness of this program in motivating substance abusers to engage in treatment...Effective in providing a clear and detailed guide to initiating and delivering this program for practitioners in a range of clinical settings. - The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling, and Psychotherapy, Catriona Panton, Vol. 8, No. 1, March 2008

What can you do for people with a substance-abusing loved one who refuses to get help? Quite a lot, as it turns out... Smith and Meyers describe the CRAFT method that they have shown to be highly effective not only in reducing family members' distress, but also in getting their loved one into treatment. Their clearly written and well-organized narrative provides step-by-step guidelines for delivering this evidence-based approach. - William R. Miller, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, USA I wish I had had this book years ago to give my staff in the alcoholism treatment clinic, and I also recommend it to counselors and therapists in more general settings. An invaluable contribution! - Carlo C. DiClemente, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland--Baltimore County, USA This book is 'must' reading for all current and future practitioners in the field of substance abuse, and should be a required text in master's-level substance abuse courses in clinical psychology, social work, and other helping professions. - Allen Rubin, PhD, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, USA Years of research show that the approach described in this book works. CRAFT is more effective than our traditional methods for dealing with this difficult clinical challenge. - Timothy O'Farrell, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA This is an overview and comprehensive step-by-step guide to the implementation of the Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) program for people with alcohol and drug problems...The book utilises numerous case examples, provides helpful suggestions on how best to broach difficult subjects, and ways to teach well-tested motivational, behavioral, and cognitive interventions that would be useful to a range of health and social care professionals...This program must be recommended for its emphasis on empowering family members, used to experiencing high levels of helplessness, as well as the strong evidence for the effectiveness of this program in motivating substance abusers to engage in treatment...Effective in providing a clear and detailed guide to initiating and delivering this program for practitioners in a range of clinical settings. - The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling, and Psychotherapy, Catriona Panton, Vol. 8, No. 1, March 2008

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Jane Ellen Smith, PhD, is a Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she is also the Director of Clinical Training. She received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Specializing in both alcoholism and eating disorders, Dr. Smith has written numerous articles and chapters on these topics. She is the coauthor of Clinical Guide to Alcohol Treatment: The Community Reinforcement Approach, also with Robert J. Meyers. She has received federal grants from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to test the Community Reinforcement Approach with homeless individuals. Dr. Smith is the recipient of the University of New Mexico’s highest teaching award: the Presidential Teaching Fellowship. Robert J. Meyers, PhD, is the Director of Robert J. Meyers, PhD, and Associates, and an Adjunct Research Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico, where his primary affiliation is with the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions. Dr. Meyers is the recipient of the 2002 Dan Anderson Research Award from the Hazelden Foundation, and the 2003 Young Investigator Award from the Research Society on Alcoholism. He has published dozens of scientific articles and several books, including Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading and Threatening. Dr. Meyers has been in the addictions field since 1976. He was recently featured prominently for his work in O, The Oprah Magazine and in the HBO documentary series, Addiction.

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