Tools to Create Change
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach for helping to create change in your loved one’s substance use or family relationships. Explore new tools and strategies that can help you better understand and communicate with them about their addiction, and strengthen how you speak about addiction with others.
1. Encourage change with the Invitation to Change (ITC) model
Resource: Center for Motivation & Change
2. Improve your family’s communication with CRAFT
Resource: Community Reinforcement and Family Training
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-craft-approach-to-substance-abuse-intervention-5191125
3. Connect with a trained CRAFT specialist for free
Resource: Partnership to End Addiction
4. Practice motivational interviewing to spark change
Resource: Providers Clinical Support System
https://pcssnow.org/courses/motivational-interviewing-talking-with-someone-struggling-with-oud/
5. Differences in substance “use”,”misuse” and “abuse”
Resource: JED Foundation
https://jedfoundation.org/resource/understanding-substance-abuse-and-addiction-disorders/
6. Why avoiding stigmatizing and hurtful language matters
Resource: National Council for Mental Wellbeing
7. How to lead by example and mirror change you want to see
Resource: BALM Family Recovery