Describe intervention and deiscuss its design and implementation.

 An intervention is an orchestrated attempt by one or many people – usually family and friends – to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other serious problem.

Intervention can also refer to the act of using a similar technique within a therapy session.

Interventions have been used to address serious personal problems, including alcoholism, compulsive gambling, drug abuse, compulsive eating and other eating disorders, self harm and being the victim of abuse. 

Interventions are either direct, typically involving a confrontational meeting with individual in question, or indirect, involving work with a co-dependent family to encourage them to be more effective in helping the individual.

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Plans for an intervention are made by a concerned group of family, friends, and counselor(s), rather than by the drug or alcohol abuser.

Whether it is invitation model or direct model, the abuser is not included in the decision making process for planning the intervention.

A properly conducted direct intervention is planned through cooperation between the identified abuser’s family or friends and an intervention counselor, coordinator, or educator.

It is important to perform the intervention in an open, large space so as to reassure the abuser that they are not trapped or cornered.

Ample time must be given to the specific situation, however, basic guidelines can be followed in the intervention planning process.

(An intervention can also be conducted in the workplace with colleagues and with no family present.) There are questions about the long-term effectiveness of interventions for those addicted to drugs or alcohol. 

A study examining addicts who had undergone a standard intervention (called the Johnson Intervention) found that they had a higher relapse rate than any other method of referral to outpatient Alcohol and Other Drug treatment.

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