Motivating Substance Abusers to Enter Treatment

Motivating Substance Abusers to Enter Treatment  is organized by Homestead Schools, Inc. This course has been approved for a maximum of 6 Contact Hour.

Course Description
Filling a crucial need, this course presents a time- and cost- effective therapy program oriented to concerned significant other (CSO) who wants to motivate a family member or partner to seek help. Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) is a non- confrontational approach that teaches CSOs how to change their own behavior in order to reward sobriety, discourage substance use, and ultimately to help get the substance abuser into treatment. The CSO also gains valuable skills for problem- solving and self-care. Step-by-step instructions for implementing CRAFT are accompanied by helpful case examples and reproducibles.

Learning Objectives:
After completing the course, you’ll be able to:
• List the 3 major goals of CRAFT.
• Discuss how CRAFT was developed.
• List 3 CSO Treatment Options.
• Briefly list the 8 components of CRAFT.
• Define “drift.”
• State who is the most suitable CSO for CRAFT, according to studies.
• List one complicating factor for treating CSOs.
• List 2 considerations required when reviewing initial assessment material.
• State the role of the CRAFT therapist.
• Describe how CRAFT is a motivation approach.
• List several benefits for CSOs.
• Discuss the 3 main goals of CRAFT.
• State the purpose of a functional analysis
• Define an episode.
• Describe external and internal triggers.
• Describe the final segment of the CRAFT functional analysis and its major purpose.
• List the 4 issues encountered when completing a functional analysis.
• Discuss the findings of Gondolf and Foster (1991), regarding men seeking alcohol treatment.
• Describe the “Conflict Tactics Scale.”
• State the main purpose of a functional analysis of violent behavior.
• Describe the predictability of violent behavior.
• List several strategies for protection of ongoing serious violence.
• List several ways a CSO can benefit from positive communication.
• List the 7 “Guidelines for Positive Communication Skills.”
• State why therapists are reluctant to participate in role play.
• Describe reverse role play.
• Define a positive reinforcer and how it is presented to the CSO.
• List several reinforcers and why the CSO should rate them
• List the 4 criteria used to reinforce behavior.
• List the most common reaction from an IP after receiving a “reward.”
• List the 10 criteria, according to Table 6.3 relating to the CSOs readiness to deliver a positive reinforce
• Describe the results of the CSO stopping certain positive behaviors.
• List the 7 guidelines the CSO can follow when withdrawing a reinforcer.
• Describe the reinstatement of reinforcers when previous ones prove to be inadequate.
• Describe the “natural consequences” procedure.
• List the 8 problem-solving guidelines.
• State the purpose of the “Happiness Scale” and briefly describe it.
• State the purpose of the “Pleasant Events Schedule.”
• Describe the 4 “Windows of Treatment.”
• List 6 motivational hooks.
• Describe one unorthodox way of inviting an IP to begin treatment.
• Define “rapid intake.”
• List several ways of handling refusal by an IP to enter treatment.
• Describe the “Intervention.”
• Describe “unilateral family therapy.”
• Describe ARISE.
• List what would exclude a CSO from a CRAFT project.
• Describe the typical CSO in drug treatment, according to NIDA(1999.)
• List the 4 categories of instruments administered to CSOs about themselves.