Whole Family Intervention and Healing is a big decision. Where intervening starts as individual conversation, the effectiveness of a professional intervention comes from the power of a multitude of voices from different family members.
A professional intervention is significantly different than a conversation.
The intervention process has four goals:
- Protecting Family Relationships
- Exploring for Motivation
- Maintaining a Positive Mindset for Individual and Family Wellbeing
- Interpersonal Flow of Family Functioning Throughout the Process
Protecting Family Relationships
During an intervention the team members (Intervention Network) are the clients. Protecting familial relationships and starting the healing processes is vital to keep a family connected to their loved one through the process. It is beneficial for the family to participate in the intervention from a place of being emotionally grounded and genuinely cohesive.
Exploring for Motivation
Exploring for motivation is necessary to position an individual’s success in treatment and recovery. The goal is to help them find their own motivation to change and to provide them with an environment where they can give voice to that motivation. Entering a treatment program with motivation to succeed greatly increases the hope for longterm recovery.
Maintaining a Positive Mindset for Individual and Family Wellbeing
Throughout intervention and Whole Family Healing we are concerned with everyone’s emotional well being, specifically the Individual of Concern (IOC). Understanding what your loved one is thinking and feeling prior to entering treatment does two things:
- Helps families understand their loved one better
- Aids treatment facilities during the intake process
Our goal is to have your loved one entering treatment feeling loved, with everyone in their family rooting for their success. Entering treatment with a positive mindset increases the likelihood of longterm success.
Interpersonal Flow of Family Functioning Throughout the Process
Smooth, regulated family interactions around addiction encourages better maneuvering through the process of Intervention, Continuing Care, and into Whole Family Healing.
We work with the family to manage relationships with each other to support their loved one entering treatment.
Hiring an interventionist is a big decision. Here’s what to expect.
The Intervention and Continuum of Care is an ongoing process designed to help families and their Individual of Concern (IOC) achieve longterm healing and recovery from progressive, relapsing, chronic and/or life-threatening mental health and/or physical health issues. Focus and services shift from the Intervention to Continuing Care when the Individual of Concern (IOC) agrees to seek professional help. Our services include ongoing meetings of the family (Intervention Network), IOC and any relevant collaborating professionals at regular intervals.
The Intervention will include:
- Mobilizing the family and support system as an Intervention Network
- Guiding network members through the Intervention process
- Providing assessment and evaluation of IOC and the family
- Recommending appropriate levels of care and placement options
- Facilitating professional collaboration and admission to treatment facility
- Coordinating arrangements for transport of client, if needed
- Ensuring safety of all involved parties throughout the process
- Providing educate and recommendations for additional continuing care
Continuing Care includes:
- Regular meetings of the Intervention Network, IoC and relevant collaborating professionals
- Relapse and crisis prevention and planning
- Monitoring and case management
- Recommendations for appropriate levels of follow-up care and placement options
- Family psycho-education to assist whole family healing
- Life skills, communication, and healthy lifestyle coaching
- Grief resolution and relearning how to celebrate, relax and play together again
- Secondary intervention if relapse occurs
- Safety of all involved parties
When addiction has been in a family for some time, the ideal goal of intervention is that the whole family has opportunities to engage in healing from the addiction disruption.
I’ve known Jeff for over 30 years, and for the last five years I’ve witnessed him focus his time and energy into creating, what seems to me as, a new intervention model for families that wish to intervene on their loved one’s addiction while keeping relational wounding and damage to a minimum. I know about addiction from my own family growing up, and in my Boulder/Denver private practice that has a couples therapy focus. Having a referral for couples and families to intervene on the addiction while protecting familial relationships supports my work with couples. What he’s doing online is coaching, not therapy, but I see where it complements therapy. As all professionals know, addiction is a slow, gradual process that becomes more painful and harder to cope with over time. So, if you have a loved one with addiction in your family, I’d suggest you contact Jeff, the sooner the better.
. . .Jim Bowen MA, LPC
Are you wondering if intervention is right for your situation? Let me know of your interest in intervention or your specific question. Send an email to jeff@thefamilyrecoverysolution.com.
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