About the event
In this two-hour overview, the basics of Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) will be covered. Much of CRA centers around making non-use more valuable and rewarding than using behavior. On one hand, measures are taken to reduce use, and on the other, increasing competing pleasurable behaviors. With CRA, we think of squeezing the addiction out from the inside so it has no place to live. A few of the tools will be discussed and their rationale.
About the trainer
Raymond Anderson (Ande) is the Director of Operations and Training at The Life Link and the Director of Training at Life Link Training Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he has worked since 1990. He is licensed in the State of New Mexico as an LPCC and LADAC. Raymond has degrees in Counseling, Theology, and Health and Human Services.
He has been a public trainer for decades and currently trains in Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA), Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), Motivational Interviewing (became a MINT trainer in 2002), Mental Health First Aid (MHFA), Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR), and many other topics. He is the main trainer at The Life Link and trains agencies in best practices in the US and as far as Australia and New Zealand.