“Sectioning,” or using the courts to force your loved one into treatment, is an extreme tool, and not optimal. It conflicts with some of the pillars of the CRAFT method, but it’s also sometimes unavoidable. Use the CRAFT skills to understand when danger is acute, and enough to warrant sectioning.
Did a positive comment cause use? You can’t know what your loved one’s feeling. Focus on you; don’t link your happiness to their status.
It was developed to help regulate blood sugar in diabetics and pre-diabetics. It’s widely (though unofficially) used for weight loss. Now semaglutide (brand name Ozempic) is showing promise for SUD sufferers as well.
CRAFT offers tools to gain awareness of your own reactivity, notice what works for your loved one, and make choices to create real change.
You’re in it for your loved one. But CRAFT wants you to change, to learn new tools. AIR offers vital support for change over time.
The end goal of CRAFT is treatment, but what does that mean, and what does it look like? In addition to more-expected forms, treatment is anything that engages your loved one, that provides meaning and helps them look at themselves. What’s our role in presenting these options when a loved one says they’re ready to hear them? Do the research and put together a treatment list for when that time comes.
How AIR began, and how it became a true community of family members helping others and refining CRAFT tools through experience.
When your loved one is coming home, it’s time to collaborate and negotiate about expectations and plans. It’s important to hear what they think the consequences for certain actions or inaction should be, and to keep communicating openly over time.
Linda offers tools to calm the nervous system. As Kayla says, it’s part of gaining coherence, a prerequisite for connection through CRAFT.
Parenting coach and mother of two Linda Aber discusses the parasympathetic nervous system and how it applies to CRAFT and parenting.
CRAFT can work from far away. The same steps apply – keep trying tools and notice what works. This helps you keep going, and not do harm.
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