Ms Elizabeth Dale recently gave a presentation titled: “A multi methods yarn about SMART Recovery: First insights from Australian Aboriginal facilitators and group members”. This presentation provides an overview of Ms Dale’s current doctoral studies and was completed as part of the 2020 Symposium Series for the Centre of Research Excellence: Indigenous Health + Alcohol.
Read MoreDr Sarah Zemore has been successful in securing funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to examine the benefits and mechanisms of mutual health alternatives for alcohol use disorders. This highly competitive grant helps to extend Dr Zemore’s previous work (HYPERLINK JSAT article) examining the longitudinal benefits of mutual aid for people living with alcohol use disorders.
Read MoreDr Alison Beck led the first comprehensive review of the scientific evidence examining SMART Recovery. This systematic review was published in 2017 and provides a valuable description of the research that has examined SMART Recovery.
Read MoreIn 1990 when Dr Joe Gerstein, Founding President of SMART Recovery, started his first SMART meeting out of a basement in Memorial Hall at Harvard University he never planned to get so involved. Rather, he was only looking for a way to increase the availability of the program for his patients who wanted an alternative to 12 step programs.
Read MoreBecoming a facilitator is just the start. There are catch up’s with other facilitators, opportunities for further training, newsletters with the latest science and podcasts.
Read MoreDr Kaustubh Sharma is Inspector General of Police in the Fardkot Range, Punjab, India. Over the past 12 months Dr Sharma and his team of psychiatrists have been implementing SMART Recovery meetings into their treatment facilities. He recently spent some time reflecting on the process and the cultural translation of SMART Recovery.
Read MoreWe have only two trained SMART Facilitators in Indonesia but increasingly we have seen a growing interest in the SMART program from Indonesian rehabilitation and addiction treatment providers. SMART Facilitators Sam & Denis capitalized on this interest by organizing a one-day SMART Recovery workshop in Jakarta last week.
Read MoreVideo | Interview with Dr Carlo DiClemente, co-creator of the Stages of Change
Read MoreSam Nugraha runs a rehabilitation centre in Indonesia. He has recently completed his SMART Facilitator training with SMART Recovery Australia and plans on integrating SMART into his centre. We spent some time with Sam learning about addiction in Indonesia and his impressions of SMART. To understand his approach to working with people with addictive behaviours, he says it is important to know something about his country.
Read MoreMalaysia is a multi-racial country, so when we talk about the concept of a ‘higher power’, that means vastly different things to different ethnic communities. That was a main driver behind my wanting to bring the SMART Program to Malaysia; it removes the issue of ‘higher power’.
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