As an Intervention Specialist, I help families overcome the difficulties associated with helping an addict or alcoholic make his own, personal decision to enter treatment without the use of force or humiliation.
An intervention often requires the assistance of an intervention specialist. The intervention services and benefits that a specialist brings is the experience and knowledge to properly handle an intervention and get your loved one into treatment. Due to our experience and intervention strategies we have a success rate over 90%. If you are considering an intervention or require intervention services, give us a call and speak to an intervention specialist.
Using an intervention specialist adds greatly to the chance of having a successful intervention. They act as a neutral party during an intervention that family members often find impossible. Having an intervention specialist also helps determine the best way to approach the intervention. We are dedicated to the results of an intervention, not the fees.
The most common, and usually the most successful intervention is one done by the family with an intervention specialist. A family intervention can be difficult even with an intervention specialist but it is much easier compared to a family doing it on their own. Without an intervention specialist, it is common for family interventions to become messy, and to the detriment of the addict, result in a lack of drug treatment. Our number one goal is getting the person into treatment.
A family intervention is not necessarily what you see on TV, or what you hear about at a 12-Step meeting. There is a lot of planning that goes into working up the best intervention strategies so that your loved one ends up getting the drug treatment they need. These intervention strategies are different for every person. There is no single strategy for interventions. Each person is different and working with us, you get an intervention specialist that will create a unique and effective intervention strategy.
Intervention has been defined in various ways by various people, since the concept was introduced about 50 years ago. Originally, an intervention was oriented around confrontation and surrender; telling the addict how his destructive behavior was affecting the family, listing his wrongdoings, and giving the addict an ultimatum as a means of motivation and forcing him to eventually \give in\ to the demands of the family. Many of these earlier styles of intervention, some still in practice, insist that an addict must admit to having a problem, and to his need for help, as a measure of intervention success. These models, however common their practice, have left behind a legacy of as much wreckage as they attempt to solve.
Modern day intervention professionals are apt to say that an intervention should be oriented around the love of the family, and designed to reach the part of the addict that wants to get better, while at the same time shutting down resources so that the person is essentially left with one solution, a way out, which is giving treatment a try. We agree with this style of intervention, when it is assisted by an experienced professional.
The sole purpose of an intervention is to guide the family, the circumstances, and the addict to make his own, personal choice to enter a drug treatment program, without force, humiliation, or intimidation.
There are many different types of interventions and approaches to interventions.
I have found the most successful and least confrontational to be the family intervention. This type of intervention consists of bringing the family together as a group and uses each member to get the addict to agree to drug treatment.
Without an intervention specialist, a family intervention can be extremely difficult. An intervention professional can bring a wide selection of intervention services for each problem encountered, and since they are not family, the interventionist can maintain a distance and neutrality needed during the family intervention that family members cannot.
Each person dealing with drug addiction will not be like any other. Therefore, each successful intervention is unique. For this reason, you need to have a skilled and experienced intervention specialist.
If you are struggling with someone who needs drug treatment, an intervention may be your best solution. However, it will always be in your best interest to first consult with an intervention specialist.