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[JACKET COPY] Countless families have a loved one who refuses to acknowledge or seek treatment for a substance abuse problem. Yet until now, concerned family members who have asked for help generally have been told that their only recourse is either detaching from their loved one or conducting a highly confrontational ""intervention."" Filling a crucial need, this book presents a powerful new alternative: a nonconfrontational, empirically based therapy program oriented to the concerned significant other (CSO) who wants to motivate a family member or partner to enter treatment. Grounded in cutting-edge theory and research, the program can be readily implemented in a range of clinical settings. Accessibly written and featuring many hands-on clinical tools, the volume begins with a concise overview of Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT). Chapters then take the clinician step by step through planning and delivering an array of well-tested motivational, behavioral, and cognitive interventions. Copious case examples illustrate ways to teach CSOs to change their own behavior toward their loved ones in order to reward sober behavior, discourage substance use, and ultimately to help get the substance abusers into treatment. In the process, CRAFT also offers therapeutic benefits to the CSOs themselves, imparting valuable skills for problem solving and self-care. Geared to the complexities of real-world practice, the book includes guidelines for dealing with domestic violence risks and for troubleshooting a range of problems in treatment. Special features include useful, reproducible client materials and a summary of the growing evidence base for this time- and cost-effective approach. The first complete guide to implementing CRAFT, this book provides indispensable knowledge and skills for therapists and counselors of any orientation, with or without addiction treatment expertise. It serves as a uniquely informative text for graduate-level courses in addiction treatment, psychotherapy, family therapy, or direct practice.

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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, and these are among the most desperate, motivated, and rewarding clients you will ever treat. Drs. 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. Through their decades of careful research and practice, Smith and Meyers have given the field a learnable and reliably effective clinical tool. --William R. Miller, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico <br> 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 profession

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 <p> Excellent....Gives therapists comprehensive, clear and detailed steps to lead concerned significant others (CSOs) into specific behavioural interventions with identified patients. The authors' respectful, careful approach in working with CSOs to encourage the substance misuser into treatment or reduce misuse and improve their own lives is impressive and evidence-based....This book offers meaningful support and intervention to people living with substance misusers. -- Addiction Today <br>

""The authors' respectful, careful approach in working with CSOs to encourage the substance misuser into treatment or reduce misuse and improve their own lives is impressive and evidence-based... I particularly like the style of therapeutic relationship which the book encourages... this book offers meaningful support and intervention to people living with substance misusers.""-Philip Trenchard, Addiction Today ""The authors' respectful, careful approach in working with CSOs to encourage the substance misuser into treatment or reduce misuse and improve their own lives is impressive and evidence-based... I particularly like the style of therapeutic relationship which the book encourages... this book offers meaningful support and intervention to people living with substance misusers."" - Philip Trenchard, Addiction Today ""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. In addition to reviewing the strong research base for their empirically supported treatment approach, the authors provide detailed instructions for clinical implementation. Everyone who values evidence-based practice - from students to experienced practitioners - will treasure this book."" - Allen Rubin, University of Texas at Austin, USA ""This book is the first detailed description of CRAFT, written for therapists and students who are interested in learning this very effective, empirically verified approach for helping the family members and significant others of substance abusers. Drs. Smith and Meyers are the pre-eminent experts on this approach, having developed it and conducted much of the research evaluating it. Written in a style that is accessible to therapists and students with varying theoretical perspectives, this volume is an excellent text for graduate courses and continuing education workshops in clinical and counseling psychology, pastoral care, family therapy, and substance abuse."" - Kimberly C. Kirby, Treatment Research Institute and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA""An outstanding resource for psychologists, social workers, and counsellors. This book shows how to help family members encourage a loved one to get help for a substance abuse problem. 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. I highly recommend it."" - Timothy O'Farrell, Families and Addiction Program, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA

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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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