SMART Recovery is a practical and solution-focused program. It uses evidence- based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI) tools and techniques to help people achieve their goals.
SMART Recovery is based on principles from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), and Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET).
SMART Recovery is a four-point recovery program based on science and focused on abstinence. Short for Self-Management and Recovery Training, the program focuses on a self-empowering system of recovery. People are encouraged to take charge of their own lives and leave addiction behind.
Our meetings focus on the application of these methods, as guided by our 4-Point Program®: 1) Building and Maintaining Motivation, 2) Coping with Urges, 3) Managing Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors; and 4) Living a Balanced Life. The methods used in SMART Recovery evolve as scientific knowledge evolves.
(You can throw in the 3 Ps as well… Practice, Patience, and Persistence.) The results achieved are in direct proportion to the work and effort put in.
Check out SMART Recovery's ABC Tool for Coping with Urges. Derived from REBT (Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy) – this tool invites you to really evaluate what you believe about problems in your life and then test those beliefs to affect better reactions to them.
Setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) objectives is a good way to plan the steps to meet the long-term goals in your grant.
We pass the hat only to meet our expenses. SMART Recovery is abstinence-based and focuses on four points: • First – Enhancing and maintaining motivation; • Second – Coping with Urges; • Third – Managing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; and • Fourth – Living a balanced life.
From the perspective of the individual with mental illness, recovery means gaining and retaining hope, understanding of ones abilities and disabilities, engagement in an active life, personal autonomy, social identity, meaning and purpose in life, and a positive sense of self.
To that end, they will often use one or more tactics from what I call the 7 Rs For Recovering From A Crisis: Renounce, Reinvent, Restructure, Rebuild, Rename, Rebrand and Reset.
One of the main controversies concerning SMART Recovery is there can be a possibility that some alcoholics can reverse addictive patterns of using through moderation and not abstinence.
The key focus of SMART Recovery™ groups is self-empowerment. Meetings and other support resources provide information on staying motivated after rehab, preventing cravings and the importance of living a well-balanced life.
In contrast, SMART doesn't use a chip system, nor does it expect complete abstinence. A criticism of the chip system is that if a person relapses, they have to start at the beginning of the chip system again, even if they've been sober for years. This may lead to some people avoiding meetings after a relapse.
Smart goals are a useful method of treatment in mental health difficulties and they are often used in the toolbox of Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The acronym SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Action-Oriented, Realistic, and Time-bound.
You may be offered IPT if you have mild to moderate depression that hasn't responded to other talking therapies, such as CBT.
CBT places an emphasis on helping individuals learn to be their own therapists. Through exercises in the session as well as “homework” exercises outside of sessions, patients/clients are helped to develop coping skills, whereby they can learn to change their own thinking, problematic emotions, and behavior.
6Rs: Rethink, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair.
Sometimes little slogans can help us remember important recovery topics. The 4 C's is one of them: Family didn't cause mental illness or addiction, can't control it, can't cure it but certainly can cope with it. This is something that a lot of family members, especially parents, wonder about.
In his book “Developing Mental Training,” psychologist Peter Clough, describes four important traits of mental toughness, which he calls the four C's: confidence, challenge, control and commitment.
The Three C's of Dealing with an addict are: I didn't cause it. I can't cure it. I can't control it.
WHAT IT IS: DISARM is a tool which exposes the self-talk and images which tell us to use as lies, excuses, and rationalizations. It challenges those urge-producing thoughts at every opportunity, shooting them down like a gunslinger or reducing them to the point of absurdity.
The SMART in SMART goals stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. Defining these parameters as they pertain to your goal helps ensure that your objectives are attainable within a certain time frame.