St Patrick’s has programmes that train family members living with addiction to influence their loved ones while also looking after themselves.
Families living with addiction often live very painful and chaotic lives against a background of financial problems, marital conflict and, in some cases, violence and abuse.
Yet family members and close friends can, and do, play a powerful role in reducing their loved one’s drinking or using and encouraging them to go into treatment.
A new programme has just been launched by St Patrick’s Mental Health Addiction Services to train family members and concerned significant others (CSOs) living with addiction to influence their loved one while also improving their own health and wellbeing.
The Craft (Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Training) programme is a scientifically based cognitive-behavioural intervention that has been developed to help family members and CSOs (including partners, friends and colleagues) play a powerful role in engaging with the substance user who is in treatment or resistant to treatment. In addition, Craft teaches people skills designed to enhance their own lives, regardless of whether the person enters treatment.
Source: Michelle McDonagh, The Irish Times, 25/08/15
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