How are you doing with your recovery?:
The SMART Recovery® Activities Scale (SRAS)
by Julie Myers, PsyD and Donald Meichenbaum, PhD
The SMART Recovery® Activities Scale (SRAS) is a new tool to help those engaged with SMART Recovery®. The SRAS was developed by Julie Myers, Psy.D.1 and Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D.2
The SRAS can be used by participants to assess how far they have come in their own recovery, by facilitators, and by professional therapists/counselors with their clients. Professionals may wish to use the SRAS in order to:
1. Assess what SMART Recovery® activities clients have already engaged in and what SMART Recovery® beliefs they have embraced.
2. Assess the reasons why clients have or have not engaged in these activities (possible barriers, lack of motivation, confidence, or skills) and how these obstacles can be addressed.
3. Engage would-be participants to join SMART Recovery® and treatment, highlighting what new members may get out of some form of treatment
The SRAS for participants is available on-line in an easy-to-use PDF format, which can be filled-out on-line or can be saved and printed. (http://www.smartrecovery.org/resources/library/Tools_and_Homework/Quick_Reference/SRAS_for_participants.pdf )
The SRAS for therapists/facilitators containing additional instructions is available at http://www.smartrecovery.org/resources/library/Tools_and_Homework/Quick_Reference/SRAS_for_therapists.pdf
Dr. Meichenbaum and Dr. Myers are seeking feedback about your experience with the SRAS. Your feedback is greatly appreciated, as it will help to refine the scale and help develop other SMART Recovery® materials that will have wide distribution throughout the world. Please direct your e-mail to Julie.Myers100@gmail.com.
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1 Dr. Myers is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in San Diego, California
2 Dr Meichenbaum is one of the founders of Cogntivie Behavior Therapy and is presently Research Director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention in Miami ( www.melissainstitute.org)
Copyright 2011 Julie Myers, PysD: Psychologist in San Diego. All Rights Reserved.