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Five Things NOT to Say to Someone With Addiction
Many addicts think they can control their drinking. While they may be able to stop, simply quitting is different from a lasting, internal change.
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Confrontation Without Conflict
If we inadvertently activate the ‘fight-flight’ response, communication will come to a halt.
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Hitting Bottom
We’ll see the progress that was occurring even when the addict appeared, at the time, to be floundering badly.
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What Makes a Good Interventionist?
Intervention is about achieving a very specific time-limited objective: an addict or alcoholic who agrees to participate in treatment.
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Recognizing Enabling Behaviors
Many good interveners—including some excellent professional intervention counselors—started out as primary enablers.
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The same people whose “enabling” actions allow the disease to flourish— and who may feel helpless to confront it— are the ones who can be most effective as interveners.
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Your Greatest Fear
They don’t realize how effectively their actions are undermining their own goal: getting the addict into treatment.
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I’m Ready to Call a Family Interventionist
An Interventionist will be trying to make sure they have all of the ‘pieces of the puzzle’
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Intervention at the ER, Part 2
It isn’t that big a challenge; you simply add a basic questionnaire on the subject to your intake paperwork.
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Why Intervention Works
The addict may have tried to control drinking or drug use many times, and failed. This experience leads him to conclude that he can’t change.
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Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 7
Involving the therapeutic team adds strength to the message and can speed the accomplishment of important goals.
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Is Your Loved One With Alcoholism Already Considering Change?
It’s an essential truth that people with alcoholism think about changing for a long, long time before they seriously attempt it. They’re ambivalent about change, and struggle to make up their minds.
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