Does SMART Recovery have groups for “codependency”?
A. SMART Recovery has a message board forum for Concerned Significant Others (CSO). The participants are encouraged to read Get Your Loved One Sober, and employ the tools of the Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Training (CRAFT) program. CRAFT is a scientifically based intervention designed to help concerned significant others (CSOs) to engage treatment-refusing substance abusers into treatment. Significant others could also attend SMART Recovery meetings aiming to abstain from specific behaviors (“codependency”) that they may have developed in (maladaptive) response to the addictive behavior. SMART Recovery is intended for all addictive behavior (substances and activities), and enabling behavior can be considered as a form of addictive behavior by the enabler. If your locality has several individuals with these issues, you may wish to experiment with a specialized group for them. Then write a newsletter article telling us how it turned out.
