Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT)

Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) intervention has a 70 percent success rate in helping substance misusers seek treatment for their addiction.

This training is delivered over two consecutive days.

Our trainers and accreditors are academically verified by Dr Robert Meyers, Research Associate Professor Emeritus in Psychology at the US Centre on Alcoholism, Substance Use and Addictions (CASAA) and developer and researcher of CRA. Positive Practice is the only UK training body he has authorised to offer the evidence-based programme.

Course Aim

The training is aimed at workers who are supporting people (affected others) who are affected by someone else’s drug or alcohol use.

The psycho-social programme is based on a whole-family approach, with workers being skilled up to bring about behavioural changes in affected others to encourage positive changes in the lives of the people they are affected by.

The course aims to develop competencies around motivational interviewing techniques to bring about change to explore problems created by substance use, reduce conflict, develop safety plans, improve communications, reduce enabling behaviour and increase motivation to change and encouragement into treatment services.

CRAFT also inspires the affected other to step back into their own lives and to recognise their own needs.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, it is hoped that course participants will:

• Understanding of the rationale behind CRAFT
• Have knowledge about the tools used to develop the Concerned Significant Others/affected other/carer (CSO) understanding of their family members (substance user) problems
• Have the tools to support the CSO to have manage their situations more effectively
• Know how to explore and encourage the CSO to change responses to reduce conflict
• Know how to encourage the CSO to use positive reinforcement to bring about behavioural change in their family member
• Know how to help the CSO to alter enabling behaviour
• Know how to teach the CSO to use positive communication
• How to explore support the CSO to positively encourage their family member into treatment

Course Content Delivery will include individual and group work, group discussions and role play. The course will be participatory in style. Course length will be 2 days.