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Clinical Guides to Implementing CRAFT

SUPPLEMENT- Getting your LO sober

CRAFT Clinical Guide for Clinicians

Motivating Substance Abusers to Enter Treatment: Working with Family Members (2007). Jane E. Smith & Robert J. Meyers.
 

Using CRAFT with Adolescents  

“Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach” (chapter) in D.W. Springer & A. Rubin (eds.), Substance Abuse Treatment for Youth and Adults: Clinician’s Guide to Evidence-Based Practice (2009). Susan H. Godley, Jane E. Smith, Robert J. Meyers, & Mark D. Godley.
 

Robert Meyers' Family Guide to Implementing CRAFT

Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening (2003). Robert J. Meyers & Brenda L. Wolfe.

CRAFT References

Kirby, K.C., Marlow, D.B., Festinger, D.S., Garvey, K.A.., & LaMonaca, V. (1999). Community reinforcement and family training and significant others of drug abusers: A unilateral intervention to increase treatment entry of drug users. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 56, 85-96.

Meyers, R.J., Miller, W.R., Hill, D.E., & Tonigan J.S. (1999).  Community reinforcement and family training CRAFT): Engaging unmotivated drug users through concerned significant others. Journal of Substance Abuse, 10, 3, 291-308.

Meyers, R.J., Miller, W.R., Smith, J.E., & Tonigan, J.S. (2002). A randomized trial of two methods for engaging treatment-refusing drug users through concerned significant others. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 1182-85.

Miller, W.R., Meyers, R.J., & Tonigan J.S. (1999). Engaging the unmotivated in treatment for alcohol problems: A comparison of three intervention strategies. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 67, 688-97.

Sisson, R.W., & Azrin, N.H. (1986). Family-member involvement to initiate and promote treatment of problem drinkers. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 17, 15-21.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2003, Reasons for Not Receiving Substance Abuse Treatment.

Waldron, H.B., Kern-Jones, S., Turner, C.W., Peterson, T.R., & Ozechowski T.J. (2007). Engaging resistant adolescents in drug abuse treatment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 32, 133-42.

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