Family Interventions
Family Interventions are often emotional and may be a completely new experience for the family.
The Interventionist helps bring the family together, focuses on their strengths, creates a detailed plan for the family to talk about the addiction and helps to create a future scenario to be presented to the individual of concern which might include consequences should the individual of concern oppose treatment.
What is an intervention
Invitational Intervention
The goal of the Invitational Intervention is to approach the individual of concern in a manner which is compassionate and non-threatening, and to help them to see how their substance use or behavior is impacting their life – the life of loved ones, their health, their work, their future -- and especially those who care about them.
We also help the family gain an understanding of the disease of addiction, the course of addition, the family history component and its influence on an individual's use of substances or on developing a harmful behavioral disorder.
An intervention is an organized, structured and highly personalized method designed to encourage and motivate an individual to recognize the need for help for an addiction to alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, shopping, food, sugar and over eating or other destructive behaviors.
An Intervention assists an individual with the possibility of recovery and a happy life, while providing the family with the support, strength and guidance it needs to help, motivate and encourage the loved one into addressing their destructive and harmful behaviors.
Respectful, Open & Honest
Our interventions are conducted in a way that is respectful, open and honest and recognizes that the individual already feels shame and guilt. Therefore the primary objective of an intervention is to create an environment where the family and person of concern is able to listen and accept help for the recovery of the entire family.
An intervention provides a catalyst for change not only in the life of the affected person but also in the life of everyone involved. Friends, family members and colleagues are shown how to work together with compassion and care to allow a suffering individual see the effect their use of substances is having not just on themselves but on those around them.
Types of Interventions
Executive or Corporate Interventions
An Executive or Corporate intervention is a cost effective way of dealing with addictions in the workplace or with a person who may be in a position of standing in the community.
Absentee employees, excessive use of sick leave, accidents in the workplace, attitude changes are just some of the signs of addictions in the work place.
Surprise Intervention
(the Johnson Model)
The Johnson Model is used when the loved one may not show up for the invitational model.
Sometimes after consultation with the family members (or colleagues at work), the Interventionist will suggest that the individual of concern is approached in a manner that would provide the greatest outcome for sobriety, or in the case of an emergency situation where the person of concern is harming themselves and the situation has become dire.