Online Team - UK SMART Recovery

Online Team

The SMART Recovery Family & Friends (F&F) Programme offers an evidence-based approach to support individuals with a loved one struggling with addiction.

SMART F&F includes tools from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in combination with the highly acclaimed CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training) programme. The programme is designed to help those affected by a loved one’s addictive behaviour to learn new ways of dealing with the challenges, thoughts and emotions that they experience.

SMART F&F will help participants to view their own behaviours, challenge their thinking and find more effective ways to interact with their loved one, as well as learning ways to empower themselves.

The SMART Recovery Family and Friends Programme

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Call for Family and Friends

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Resources

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Attend a Meeting

UK SMART Recovery currently offers a weekly Online Family & Friends meeting on Mondays at 7:30 pm.

You can also search to see if there is a Family & Friends meeting near you, when searching select ‘Family & Friends’ within ‘meeting type and features’.

Join the Community Forum

A Family & Friends forum is available within the SMART Online Recovery Community where you can post, meet peers and gain further understanding from the resources offered.

SMART Family & Friends Handbook

The SMART Family and Friends Handbook is useful to meeting participants who want a stronger understanding of the topics and tools that are used in the Family and Friends programme. It includes most of the hand-outs and written exercises used in meetings.

Most people will not read this Handbook from cover to cover, but rather use it as a topic-by-topic reference to answer questions.

You can purchase this book here.

If you are interested in a bulk order please get in touch with central office to discuss discounts.

Current Partners

The core activity of SMART Recovery is to develop and support our network of peer-led ‘mutual aid’ meetings, though we also work in Partnership with care and treatment providers who support people with addictions. We train SMART Recovery ‘Champions’ within these organisations, who can run SMART meetings within their services and encourage service users to train as Facilitators and start their own meetings.