The Professionally Strategized Intervention
If you are a relative or friend of someone in need of help due to alcohol, drug or behavioral addiction you may be experiencing feelings of frustration, sadness, confusion, fear, anger or despair. You want to help, but how do you best help an addict?
Family and friends often attempt to change the behavior of an addict by threatening, appeasing, gifting, shunning, loving or endlessly discussing. Such well-meant efforts most often fail to guide a person toward meaningful help and admission to a quality, appropriate addiction treatment center. These good intentions may actually unknowingly sabotage positive outcomes for the addict.
Fortunately, a proven step exists for family and friends that can optimize the chance for the addict to receive help before the situation worsens. This proven step is the Professionally Strategized Intervention.
The Professionally Strategized Intervention is considered the first and most critical stage of recovery for addicts and their families. It provides critical guidance necessary for understanding how to help the addict receive life-saving treatment. Its goal is to set the foundation for a meaningful and sustainable long-term recovery. Firm, but loving and structured, confrontation through a Professionally Strategized Intervention sets up the best opportunity for the addict.
What exactly happens in a Professionally Strategized Intervention? The Intervention is a planned and deliberate, yet always loving crisis for the addict which can be used to break through the addict’s defenses. It is through this type of Intervention that an addict’s destructive downward spiral can often be halted. The process of the Professionally Strategized Intervention sets in motion a critical crisis confrontation through which the addict gains a much greater chance of receiving the help that results in a successful outcome.
Intervention is built upon the right balance of love, respect, clinical knowledge and the reality of each individual case. Each case of addiction is unique in its presenting pressures; therefore, flexible customization is extremely important for success. The Professionally Strategized Intervention is a managed process with planned strategy and extensive preparation. The intelligent and compassionate engineering of a crisis situation is used to break through the addict’s denial, resulting in the transition to inpatient treatment. The setting of a foundation for a successful treatment experience and lifelong recovery is the goal.
Competent guidance of family, friends and/or employers of the addict is critical for a successful Intervention. Preparation involves selecting appropriate individuals to be involved in the Intervention. Influence and leverage over the addict are the primary drivers for determining who will need to be included in the Intervention. The strategically assembled team will be educated about issues important to the Intervention including the nature of addiction, codependency, denial, rationalization, manipulative behavior and blame.
Arch has a personal and professional understanding of addiction, Intervention and recovery. His training and his work with addicts and their families for over forty years provides the framework for Professionally Strategized Interventions. Partnering with his wife Julie, their combined skills provide the first stage of clinical treatment necessary for successful long-term recovery.
Julie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Juris Doctorate with honors. She is a NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model) Professional and brings a balanced attention to detail, organizational skills and empathetic straightforwardness to each and every Intervention.
The experience and expertise of Arch and Julie within the field of treatment can facilitate a meaningful and lasting change for addicts and those who love them. They understand how a shift in the direction of the disease of addiction usually only occurs through a crisis. They know that addicts will rarely, if ever, recognize their condition and seek treatment on their own. Arch and Julie believe the most effective, ethical and clinically viable approach to any addiction is to treat each case as unique. They are dedicated to helping overcome the disease of addiction – one of the strongest forces in a person’s life.