An Invitation to the Invitation to Change
(Information for attendees. Closed training. Wednesday, May 21st, 2024)
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Helping Families Help
Interested in joining a Google group of clinicians and family peer leaders how are learning about or providing CRAFT-based work? Want to learn more about support and training for the providers of this work? Come check out our community at Helpingfamilieshelp.com!
Monthly CRAFT/ITC Peer Consult Group
Come join our free monthly CRAFT/Invitation to Change peer consultation group. Click the button below for more details…
What Shamu Taught Me about a Happy Marriage
Read this for 8/14/20 training.
An informative and humorous article by Amy Sutherland, featured in the Modern Love section of the New York Times, that effectively illustrates the subtle use of reinforcement to encourage different behaviors from our loved ones. Although she may be talking about targeting something as simple as reducing a tirade in the wake of having lost keys, the same principles apply to more complex and potentially difficult situations.
Zoom Training Tips & Tricks
A quick guide to some of the major aspects of Zoom that we will be using during this training… including muting, chat & participation windows, some options for managing your screen organization, and annotating.
The use of confrontation in addiction treatment: History, science and time for change
To get a better sense of the history behind us, and the conceptual waters we are swimming in, Drs. White and Miller offer a history of the use of confrontation and rational for a motivational stance in addiction treatment. Although we won’t be going deeply into this specific article during the training, I do refer to this in passing and invite you to take a peek, if you have time. Not required and highly recommended!
For the full text, download the pdf using blue box in upper right corner of the ResearchGate site that says “Download full-text PDF”.
White, W. & Miller, W. (2007). The use of confrontation in addiction treatment: History, science and time for change. Counselor, 8(4), 12-30.
Research on CRAFT
APA Intervention synopsis: Excellent brief summary of CRAFT related research https://www.apa.org/pi/about/publications/caregivers/practice-settings/intervention/community-reinforcement.aspx
Listing of Dr. Robert Meyers CRAFT related research from his website. robertjmeyersphd.com/publications.html
NCBI article on CRAFT, specifically with parents of treatment-resistant adolescents, with additional links to related studies on left hand side https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4394369/
For More information discussing the empirical base, check out chapter 10 of Motivating Substance Abusers to Enter Treatment
Short Film, “Nuggets” by Filmbilder
A short, 5-minute video that captures both the concepts that “Behaviors make sense” and “Ambivalence is normal.” This is one of several options to use with families in order to open up a conversation about these concepts, however we will not be watching this during the training.
Do make sure your screen lighting is turned up a bit, it gets dark at the end. If you were the kiwi, what would you do? How can we, as family members, help turn the lights back on in other areas of life?
A Meditation by Dr. Kelly Wilson for Clinicians and Family Members of Someone Struggling with Substance Abuse
Originally from his webinar titled “ACT for Overcoming Substance Abuse”, this piece written by Dr. Kelly Wilson provides an experiential answer to the question asked by exasperated family members everywhere: ”Why can’t my loved one just stop?”
CRAFT and CRAFT-based approaches “Family Tree”
I created this tree as a way to visualize the relationships between the different CRAFT-based approaches. Please note it is based on my conceptualization of the relationships between the work and the sources, and others may have a different perspective (or not).
If you want the work most strictly aligned with the research protocol, check out out Dr. Robert Meyers’ work in orange. AlliesInRecovery.net is a great option for families to access CRAFT, but offered online (an added variable). If adding compassion, flexibility, and awareness is important to you, then the work from Center for Motivation and Change, including the Invitation to Change Approach (the nodes in blue) might be your stuff. Want to bring this to your community quickly and with minimal investment? Then start a community group, and SMART Recovery Family & Friends is the way that has the greatest support and structure for that right now.
It’s all based on CRAFT.
Functional Analysis
A tool to slow down around behaviors and start looking closer. Can be completed around any behavior that is happening again and again.
How does this make sense? What is reinforcing? What else could be potentially substituted in to meet that need? What needs may not be met and how can we hold space for that loss? What negative consequences are also present? What consequences, as a family member, am I willing to get out of the way of so that the results can rest more on their shoulders? Which ones am I not (One size doesn’t fit all….)?