“Checklists for Recovery” with CBT Founder Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D. and Julie Myers, Psy.D. Friday, May 10, 2013 5:00 pm EDT Webinar Registration The SMART Recovery approach to addiction recovery is based on SELF-Management. Effective management includes measuring progress. What better way to assess your personal progress with the SMART tools than to use the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘support’
April 30th, 2013
Webinar: Tracking Your Progress
Posted in Lifestyle Balance 
Tags: addiction recovery, Julie Myers, relapse prevention, support, webinar 
No Comments »April 23rd, 2013
Dealing With Negative Emotions
No Complaining by Mary Russell, M.S. When you hear the word “complaining” you probably have some sort of negative reaction. It probably conjures up images of people in your life who whine or routinely throw themselves pity parties but don’t do anything to improve their circumstances. What you may be less likely to think of [...]
April 16th, 2013
It’s Here! New Edition of the SMART Handbook
3rd Edition now available This newest edition of the SMART Recovery Handbook (for participants) is the culmination of many months of in-depth review and revision work by a dedicated team of volunteers. It provides additional tools, exercises and strategies to help people recover from their addictive behaviors. It features: •New content – new program tools [...]
July 17th, 2012
5 Alternatives to 12-Step Meetings
Many Paths to Recovery For over 250 years, Americans with alcohol and other drug problems have banded together for mutual support in recovery. It’s true – it began in the 1730’s when Native Americans organized abstinence-based recovery circles. Since that time, a variety of groups have come and gone, but the efficacy of self-help meetings [...]
April 5th, 2011
Guest Speaker: Robert J. Meyers, Ph.D.
Dr. Robert J. Meyers, creator of the Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) treatment approach, long-term practitioner in the field of addiction recovery, and co-author of the book Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading and Threatening, will be a special Guest Speaker at the Monday, April 18th SMART Recovery online meeting for [...]
Posted in Family & Friends Tags: addiction recovery, Bob Meyers, Concerned Significant Other, CRAFT, CSO, enabling, Family & Friends, podcasts, support 1 Comment »February 17th, 2011
Supporting Recovery Without Enabling
In Epidemics, Hippocrates said, “Make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.” How can we apply that idea to helping family and friends with addictions? When we care about individuals who are trying to overcome addictions, we often face dilemmas in how best to help them. For instance, if [...]
Posted in Family & Friends Tags: addiction recovery, Concerned Significant Other, CSO, enabling, Family & Friends, recovery, support, Tom Horvath 7 Comments »February 13th, 2011
Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening
A Book Review by Henry Steinberger, Ph.D. To help people seeking sobriety for their loved ones, Get Your Loved One Sober offers a revolutionary program: The Community Reinforcement And Family Training (CRAFT) intervention. The subtitle, Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening more aptly describes what this book is about. Getting a loved one into treatment [...]
Posted in Family & Friends Tags: addiction, Bob Meyers, Concerned Significant Other, CRAFT, CSO, enabling, Family & Friends, Henry Steinberger, recovery, support 9 Comments »
