CRAFT: Community Reinforcement and Family Training — Janet Fluker
Andy Knight
What Is the CRAFT Approach?
Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) is intended to help family members of addicts learn how to steer their loved ones away from substance abuse. It is a great method for someone who's refusing treatment or refusing to admit they are no longer in control of how much they consume.
Instead of an old-school intervention where the family and friends get together and ask the person to enroll in a rehabilitation program, the CRAFT method encourages close significant others (which the program calls CSOs) to reward their loved one when they choose sobriety or show control.
Another critical aspect of this method is that it encourages families to step back and allow bad consequences to happen when the person consumes.
While the goal is to get the person dealing with an addiction in your life to admit they have a problem and get help, the CRAFT method also helps the loved ones prioritize their mental health and improve their happiness.
About Janet Fluker
Janet is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has served individuals, couples, and families in the Atlanta area for 25 years. She and her husband moved to Decatur after graduating from seminary to serve a local church where she was Minister of Education. She received her master’s degree in counseling from Georgia State University and worked as a pastoral counselor with The Care and Counseling Center of Georgia. Janet left private practice when she was invited to develop a team of family counselors as Director of The Family Recovery Center at MARR Addiction Treatment Center, a local substance use disorder treatment program. The focus of The Family Recovery Center is on helping families as they struggle with a loved one’s addiction. She returned to private practice in January 2021, when she joined The Summit Counseling Center.
In her therapy practice, she enjoys working with a diverse group of people, specializing in families and addiction, families with children who have disabilities, divorce, stepfamilies, and pastoral counseling. She is passionate about working with couples and has extensive training using the evidence-based model of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. She also finds fulfillment in guiding the next generation of counselors as a Certified Professional Counseling Supervisor.