Tips for a Successful Intervention
It is excruciating to observe your loved one spinning in negative space, due to an addiction to alcohol or drugs. Perhaps your heart-to-heart talks failed and your beloved ignored your half-hearted ultimatums. Don’t give up.
Get proactive and stage an intervention. Rather than hoping the addict will ‘wake up’ if he gets arrested or gets fired from his job, the formal intervention, when handled correctly, can persuade your person to get professional help.
What is a Formal Intervention?
A formal intervention is a planned process, typically led by an intervention specialist, along with your person’s close friends and family. The idea is to help an addict admit his self-destructive behavior and want to change
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Statistics show 90 percent of formal interventions handled by professional interventionists result in success, with the addict entering rehab.
Interventionists keep the planned process on-track. They are compassionate, loving and supportive. Unlike family and friends, their emotions do not interfere with the task at hand – to lead the addict out of denial and into a rehab center.
Who Participates in the Formal Intervention?
No two interventions are alike. Groups may consist of: spouses or lifetime-partners, parents, grandparents, adult children, good friends, etc. It is possible for an intervention group to lay out their expectations to the addicted person, without an intervention specialist. However, success is debatable.
Minus the professional, your person may not agree to rehab. Most likely he will get angry and even verbally abusive to group members. Because addicts are in deep denial, the environment may turn hostile. If anyone is in physical danger, contact the police.
Pre-Planning the Intervention
The intervention specialist will provide an overview on addiction and recovery. She will answer questions and show the group ways to persuade your person that he needs
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My listening skills will be an advantage for the client because I will be able to customize and individualize each treatment plan to fit the client’s needs to get them the most beneficial treatment possible. I've seen clinicians treat clients like cattle, talk to 20 different people with 20 different problems and diagnoses and write the same treatment plan for every single one of them. I will treat every client like they are my main priority. It’s also important for addiction counselors and mental health practitioners to remember that in many cases, people receive treatment for one disorder while the other disorder remains untreated. You hear of many cases where someone goes in to get help for their depression or bipolar disorder, and once MH practitioner’s find out they have a Substance Use Disorder they totally forget about the mental health aspect and transfer the client to the substance abuse counselor.
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During the rehab process, patients receive much more than therapy and counselling. They learn a lot about addiction and what it takes to stay on the path of recovery. In many cases, they also learn the value of having one or more support groups. For many years now, counselors have placed a great deal of value on promoting the idea of "one addict helping another addict." In fact, who would know more about the recovery process than someone who has successfully lived it?
Addiction counselors work with individuals and groups to help them overcome their substance abuse problems. This is accomplished through assessing the needs of the client, helping the client set goals and providing important resources. For example, many addiction counselors host group meetings and connect their clients with community resources. Addiction counselors help their clients identify inappropriate and unhelpful behaviors and thought patterns that contribute to their lifestyle choices. They also teach their clients important coping skills and positive mental techniques.
...lenging and rewarding, and yet sometimes they would bring sadness. One has to be a strong and caring person to work with people who have addictions. In the end, the result would be for the patient to feel better about their self and gain the desire to succeed.
...ives from the implementation of an empathic, hopeful continuous treatment relationship, which provides integrated treatment and coordination of care through the course of multiple treatment episodes” (Watkins, 2015). Whether, confronted with a substance use disorder, gambling or sex addiction the way in which a counselor work with the client in an open helpful manner is the key to motivating the client to change their behaviors. “A man convinced against his will, Is of the same opinion still” (Carnegie, 1981). The most piece of the helping relationship is that the client is the lead in their care, as they are the ones that will be making the decisions for their care. A counselor is essentially a trained skillful teacher that guides an individual toward their best recovery options and it is up to the individual to make the needed changes in their life and behaviors.
Therefore, when I work with substance abusers I will show empathy, encourage and validate their successes and their feelings about any failures. In addiction, I will help the person learn from their failures and normalize the situation. Furthermore, I would attempt to ensure that the person had several coping strategies in place, to help when he or she finds themselves in a difficult situation. Moreover, I intend to ensure the client has all the tools he or she needs to succeed while getting to the root of their problem through counseling.
Digital image. Incarceration vs Rehab. Your Addiction Support, n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2016. stop once they leave prison or a rehab facility it only increases. The amount of support that the recovering addict receives is the main source of their success when it comes to avoiding relapse. The amount of support is different depending on where they are treated. In rehab facilities, there are often programs that are created to help those who are ready to leave the facility, but who still want some support if they need it. The facility will often work with the recovering addict to make sure they have a place to live, a job so they can get themselves back up on their feet, and will often assign this person a mentor to help them as they learn to avoid the normal temptations of their past life. This is unlike prison where once an addict leaves the prison walls, they are often on their own. Though many addicts find that they can get support from their friends and family, sometimes this is not enough. Sometimes, these addicts go to programs like Alcohol anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA) that are open to anyone who needs the help. There is a large gap when it comes to the amount of support that a recovering addict receives once out of rehab compared to once they are out of prison. A recovering addict has connections with his doctors who treated him while he was in rehab compared to the addict who came from prison who may the have a sponsor who he is
Drug addiction is more complicated than medicine thought in previous years. It’s not because someone is weak or unable to control themselves. They are chemical such a dopamine in the human body that makes the process difficult. The brain works in a neuropath way and drug interrupt the normal process which stops the frontal lobe to work as it should. Treatment isn’t done right and patients tend to repeat their habit after they get out of rehab. Psychological treatment is not as effective as chemical injection for dopamine to reward the brain. However, even after the treatment is complete, it will be a life struggle to stay away from drugs since the brain will always look for a simpler way to reward itself.
To begin with, in order for a facility to be successful in treating people with addictions whether it be alcohol, or drugs the facility must have a treatment plan to use and guide both counselors and the client alike to be successful in the program.
Main Point: The effects on a person after they become addicted to something can be small, or they can be great, depending on the length of time they are exposed to the addictive behavior or substance and what caused it. The addiction affects the addict’s health, career and relationships. I can tell you from personal experience with having family members who were addicts, that I was traumatized growing up. (Personal story about couple arguing here.) According to Roxanne Edwards of Medicine.net, “In terms of effects on the body, intoxication with a substance can cause physical effects that range from marked sleepiness and slowed breathing …to the rapid heart rate...” In addition, psychologically they can have suicidal thoughts or elation depending on the addictive substance or behavior. This is why it is important for the addict to seek help because they cannot get rid of the issue on their own. Most of the time, addicts go through some sort of rehab treatment and when they are released they are instructed to go to meetings that help with the aftermath of addiction. Just a few of these groups are places like Alcoholics/Narcotics Anonymous, or even Celebrate Recovery. Although some places believe that these programs do not work, it is well worth mentioning that the success rates depend on the want to of the person working them. They have to want to remain sober or free from the addiction or they will go right back to it. Alcohol Rehab.com puts it this way, “Failure to
There is nothing about addiction that is easy or clear, and although every family's experience is unique, I know some of what you are going through at this time. The thing that makes addiction so difficult is that the cure is not one that a prescription can be written or a counseling session can fix or a parent can love out of them. The cure is totally dependent upon the addict. That is the frustrating and painful part of this illness and those of us who love our addict so much, and we cannot force them to get the help we so obviously see —they need—it has to be up to them.
This process can help them enter into a healthier lifestyle called the recovery period. It may take months, years or several years before this person makes a full commitment to stop and live a clean and sober lifestyle. Although most addicts cannot just stop on their own, they need professional help. This help can be from rehabs, 12 step programs, and from therapy. Addicts have a better chance of staying sober this route then continuing to stay in this addiction cycle and living the life that they are
In conclusion drug addiction is a very terrible and challenging problem. It affects individuals, families, and the people around them. It is important that drug addicts realize that they must want to stop and seek help for the problem. The drug addict needs the support of friends and family, so they can make it through this process. The process to recover from drug addiction can take a lifetime. There is hope for a drug addict who wants to change their life for the better.