*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.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
. - This book presents....an empirically based, nonconfrontational therapy program designed for the concerned significant other (CSO) who wants to motivate a partner or family member to seek help. I found the Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) approach, presented by authors Smith and Meyers, to be progressive in its basic premise, practical, and generally applicable to counselors working in a variety of settings....For those clinicians who may not be confident in their knowledge of drinking or using behavior, the text provides vivid examples and a step-by-step process for getting started, guiding the CSO, identifying short- and long-term consequences for both the IP and the CSO, and ultimately how to help get the substance abuser into treatment. --The Family Journal, 11/22/2007?? 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, 11/22/2007
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Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Professional and Professional Practice & Development
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-59385-646-5 (9781593856465)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
1. Description of Community Reinforcement and Family Training
2. Building and Sustaining Motivation of Concerned Significant Others
3. Functional Analysis of a Problem Behavior
4. Domestic Violence Precautions
5. Improving Communication Skills of Concerned Significant Others
6. Positive Reinforcement of Clean and Sober Behavior
7. The Use of Negative Consequences
8. Helping Concerned Significant Others Enrich Their Own Lives
9. Inviting the Identified Patient to Enter Treatment
10. Empirical Support for CRAFT
