CRAFT Learning Day
Community Reinforcement and Family Training for families and carers of drug and alcohol users
1 May 2012
Coventry
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CRAFT is an accredited programme designed to support those people (Concerned Significant Others) who are caring for, or living with, someone who is using drugs or alcohol.
CRAFT is a highly effective, evidence-based, motivational programme for Concerned Significant Others, which has three main aims:
- to reduce the use of drugs or alcohol
- to get the loved one into treatment
- to improve the life of those caring for and living with the drug or alcohol user
Where substance misuse is a problem there are likely to be other problems, including mental health, increased risk of domestic violence, and involvement in crime. Particularly where a parent is using drugs or alcohol, families are far more likely to be 'chaotic'.
CRAFT has been shown to increase the resilience of family members, to strengthen families, and to successfully encourage loved ones to engage in treatment (in nearly seven out of ten cases). The programme coaches family members to cope with crises, but also to recognise opportunities to encourage the drug or alcohol user into treatment. It helps family members identify triggers for intensive use of substances or for associated behavioural problems like domestic violence. CRAFT is effective across different ethnic groups and with different types of family relationships, and can be delivered on a one to one basis, or to groups.
The aim of this CRAFT Learning Day is to provide senior practitioners and managers with sufficient information to determine whether the CRAFT approach would be an effective tool to adopt for their service. The Learning Day will be delivered by Charlotte Waite who is the only accredited CRAFT trainer in the UK. |
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The Learning Day will provide:
- a research overview confirming the effectiveness of CRAFT in a variety of settings
- a brief summary of the theory and principles underpinning the approach
- an introduction to the practical procedures and skills base of the work, including practice examples
- an opportunity for delegates to explore the suitability and adaptability of this intervention within their work setting
An information pack and certificate of attendance will be provided to each delegate. Lunch and refreshments throughout the day will be available.
Note: this Learning Day will not provide accredited CRAFT training. Any service intending to deliver CRAFT would need to send one (or more) members of staff on a full 2-day training programme, which is planned for later this year.
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"CRAFT can make the difference between a family coping and not coping, as well as significantly increasing the chances of the drug or alcohol user starting treatment."
Charlotte Waite, CRAFT Trainer
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- children's and adults' social workers
- family and parent support services
- drug and alcohol services
- services which address parental substance misuse
- other services working with at-risk families and children
- specialist health practitioners working with drug and alcohol misusers
- domestic violence services
- mental health services
- social housing providers
- probation and prison services
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Programme
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Delegate rates
• Standard delegate rate £150 + VAT
• Reduced delegate rate £135 + VAT
(Limited number available to small community organisations with 10 or fewer employees)
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Your booking will be confirmed by email where possible (and by fax or post otherwise), and you will be provided with directions to the venue and details on nearby hotel accommodation. If you do not receive such acknowledgement, please contact Central Conference Consultants Ltd on 0115 916 3104. |
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Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) is an approach to substance misuse, which involves families and carers (Concerned Significant Others (CSOs)). The CRAFT approach, originating in the USA, developed from the Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) for alcoholism.
The CRAFT programme has three major goals:
- Decrease the family member's substance use;
- Get the substance user into treatment; and
- Increase the CSO's own happiness, independent of the substance user's treatment status.
These goals are addressed by working with the CSO as the client.
CRAFT is a highly-effective, evidence-based, motivational program for family members living with a loved one (i.e. partner or adult son/daughter) who is using alcohol or drugs problematically. CRAFT teaches these family members how to change their own behaviour at home toward the substance using family member in a carefully orchestrated manner. More specifically, CSOs learn to rearrange contingencies in the substance misuser's environment so that appropriate behaviour is effectively rewarded, drinking or drug use is discouraged, and engagement in treatment is encouraged.
Several randomised controlled trials have demonstrated the effectiveness of this approach. These studies show that CRAFT-trained family members consistently are able to engage their substance-misusing loved one into treatment in nearly seven out of 10 cases. Notably, the programme is effective with ethnically diverse populations, across various types of relationships (spouses, parent-adult child), and without regard for the particular drug of abuse (alcohol, cocaine etc).
Copello A. G. et al (2005), in a review of "Family interventions in the treatment of alcohol and drug problems" (Drug and Alcohol Review (July 2005) 24 369-385), conclude that CRAFT interventions have been effective in:
- Engaging previously treatment-resistant drug-misusing relatives into treatment (both alcohol and drug misuse)
- Reducing family conflict, and depression, anxiety, and physical symptoms among CSOs.
The CRAFT programme is a very active process that utilises role-plays and other behavioural skills-training exercises during sessions, and homework assignments between sessions. CRAFT components include:
(1) Enhancement of CSO motivation;
(2) Functional analysis of the substance misuser's problem behavior;
(3) Domestic violence precautions;
(4) Communication skills training for family members;
(5) Judicious use of positive reinforcement;
(6) Use of negative consequences for substance using behavior;
(7) Enrichment of CSOs' own lives; and
(8) Treatment invitation for the substance misuser
You may find the following information, commissioned by the National Treatment Agency, useful:
Supporting and Involving Carers (published by the NTA in October 2008)
Appendix 1 includes reference to CRAFT and is entitled: Families of drug users – the evidence base
The report, with all appendices, can be found on the NTA website at the following location:
www.nta.nhs.uk/Who-service-involved.aspx
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The event will take place in Coventry.
Directions and details of nearby accommodation will be provided following booking.
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Enquiries
If you have any queries about the event please contact the organisers, Central Conference Consultants Ltd, on 0115 916 3104 or email ccclimited@aol.com |
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