Mar 11, 2010
This podcast episode is relevant to both consumers and professionals.
In this episode, R. Trent Codd, III, Ed.S., LPC, LCAS interviews Robert J. Meyers, PhD about Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT). Topics discussed include:
ROBERT J. MEYERS BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Meyers has been in the addiction field
for 37 years with 23 of those years being at the University of New
Mexico. He is
currently the director of Robert J. Meyers, Ph.D. & Associates and
a Research Associate Professor Emeritus in Psychology at the
University of New Mexico's Center
on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addiction. He has been involved in over a dozen
clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health,
including Project Match and the Clinical Trials
Network.
Dr. Meyers began his work with the Community Reinforcement Approach
(CRA) in 1976. At that time he helped develop the first CRA
outpatient procedures, which were used in the seminal study
published by Dr. Nathan Azrin and colleagues in 1982. In the
late 1990's Dr. Meyers helped design and evaluate the adolescent
version of CRA (A-CRA). Dr. Meyers also developed the new
innovative "intervention" program used to engage resistant
substance abusers to enter treatment. This new intervention
called Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), an
evidence-based protocol, has been shown to be superior to more
traditional interventions in several randomized clinical
trials. His CRAFT work has led Dr. Meyers and CRAFT to be one
of the 14 featured segments of the Emmy Award-winning HBO Addiction
series. Dr. Meyers has also been featured in Oprah magazine for his
outstanding work using the Community Reinforcement
Approach.
Dr. Meyers is an internationally known
speaker and trainer who has delivered trainings throughout the USA
and in 12 countries around the world. Dr. Meyers has trained
therapist from 6 of the worlds 7 continents. He has published
over 100 scientific articles or chapters and co-authored
5 books and one
manual on addiction treatment, including "Get Your Loved One Sober:
Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading and Threatening" and "Motivating
Substance Abusers to Enter Treatment: Working with Family Members".
Several of his books are also available in Dutch, Finnish, German
and Korean. The book "Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives
to Nagging, Pleading and Threatening" is currently being published
in Dutch, Japanese and Spanish.