Do you know someone with drug and alcohol dependency? Naturally, you want to help them, so you may decide to hold an intervention. However, there are good ways and bad ways to go about it. Learn how to stage an intervention correctly to encourage someone to seek the treatment they deserve.
How to Stage An Intervention: Steps to Take
You might want to have an intervention specialist on hand. Moreover, this may be necessary if your loved one is prone to violent outbursts or has a co-occurring mental health disorder.
Even without a specialist, you can stage an intervention yourself. Before you begin, decide who will be present during the intervention. Typically, this is friends and family. Some people shouldn’t participate, however, if their emotions are likely to take over. Try to include the calmest individuals as part of the group.
Next, decide where to hold the intervention. Ideally, it’s a location where the user feels comfortable, such as their own home.
Practice what you’ll say. Each person should tell the user how they feel in language that isn’t condemning or blaming. Think of using “I” statements, such as “I am worried about you,” and not “You have hurt all of us with your use.”
In knowing how to stage an intervention, it’s also important to make the consequences of abuse clear. Furthermore, you must decide in advance what your end goal is. Is it to get the user into rehab right away? Is it to get a firm commitment that they’ll enter rehab within the next month?
Finally, recognize that the user may reject your help. In addition, you may have to issue an ultimatum, which may include cutting off financial support.
However, make it clear you’re still there to support any efforts to get clean.
What Not to Do for an Intervention
Just as there are ways to handle an intervention, there are also ways to make them go wrong. These are sensitive moments in time for the person struggling with addiction. The wrong approach could only make things worse. For example, things you shouldn’t do include:
Encouraging user during substance use
Winging it
Escalating arguments
Not being clear about consequences
Being confrontational
The more you prepare, the better the chance that the intervention will go well.
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