Addiction Test

Addiction Treatment: Dr. Schack was an expert consultant for the Center for Motivation and Change in NYC for over ten years where she helped people develop skills to manage their emotions during early sobriety. She currently works with people who may want to moderate their use or have decided they want to stop completely. She works with a team of highly specialized clinicians to ensure the best treatment.

Consultation for Families with a loved one who has a substance problem

Through her work with CMC, Dr. Schack was trained in Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT). Drs. Robert J. Meyers and Jane Ellen Smith of the University of New Mexico developed the CRAFT program to teach families how to impact their loved one while avoiding both detachment and confrontation. CRAFT teaches effective behavioral strategies for helping their loved one to change and for feeling better themselves. CRAFT works to affect the loved one’s behavior by changing the way the family interacts with him or her. CRAFT helps families move their loved one toward treatment, helps reduce the loved one’s alcohol and drug use, whether or not the loved one has engaged in treatment and also improves the lives of the concerned family and friends.

Drs. Robert J. Meyers and Jane Ellen Smith of the University of New Mexico developed the CRAFT program to teach families how to impact their loved one while avoiding both detachment and confrontation, the respective strategies of Al-Anon (a 12-Step based approach) and traditional (Johnson Institute-style) interventions in which the substance user is confronted by family members and friends during a surprise meeting. While all three approaches have been found to improve family members’ well-being, CRAFT has proven to be significantly more effective in engaging loved ones in treatment and decreasing their substance use, in comparison to the Johnson Institute Intervention or Al-Anon/Nar-Anon facilitation therapy.