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  • 1 - Developing the Community Reinforcement Approach

  • Edited by Robert J. Meyers, University of New Mexico, William R. Miller, University of New Mexico
  • Book:
    A Community Reinforcement Approach to Addiction Treatment
    Published online:
    05 August 2012
    Print publication:
    16 August 2001, pp 1-7

  • Summary

    The story of the Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) begins 30 years ago, when indigent alcohol-dependent individuals in downstate Illinois were routinely admitted to the nearest state mental hospital. CRA was the brain child of George Hunt who worked as a Research Associate in the Behavior Research Laboratory of Dr Nathan Azrin at Anna State Hospital. Mark Godley, a social worker, began a 5-year collaboration with Nathan Azrin when he contacted him in the September of that year, about working together on behavioral alcoholism treatment research. John Mallams had served as a therapist in the second CRA inpatient trial and was especially eager to work in a community outpatient setting. In the course of training and preparation for the first outpatient trial, Mallams and Robert J. Meyers modified the inpatient procedures. To date, every clinical trial has shown that CRA has a better outcome compared with more traditional treatment practices.