An intervention is an orchestrated attempt by one, or often many, people (usually family and friends) to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis. The term intervention is most often used when the traumatic event involves addiction to alcohol or other drugs. Intervention can also refer to the act of using a technique within a therapy session.
Alcohol and drug interventions typically involving a confrontative meeting with the alcohol or other drug dependent person. These interventions tend to be a form of short-term therapy aimed at getting the addicted person into rehabilitation.
Plans for an alcohol or drug intervention is typically made by a concerned group of family, friends, employees and counselor(s), rather than by the addict themself. Often the addict will not agree that they need the type of help that is proposed during the intervention, usually thought by those performing the intervention to be a result of denial. One of the primary arguments against interventions is the amount of deception required on the part of the family and counselors. Typically, the addict is surprised by the intervention.
Weyland Intervention Services provides Orchestrated alcohol and drug Interventions with the specific goal of getting an abuser into treatment. They believe that such Interventions should only be employed when a qualified Interventionist has assessed that it is the only option left for family and friends. Ethically, a less restrictive and certainly less intrusive intervention approach should first be explored before doing an Orchestrated Intervention. Weyland's approach entertains the idea that there are often intermediate or gradations of intervention strategies that may be implemented.
Families are typically afraid and sometimes even at their wits end when they decide that they are in need of an Intervention. It is the job of the professionally trained interventionist to infuse a sense of calm to the situation while clinically assessing both the need for an intervention, when best indicated and the level(s) of intervention that will best serve a specific situation.
Weyland Intervention Services offers a discreet, gender specific outpatient opportunity to attain recovery. These services are provided in a calm and soothing environment and one that supports the patient’s efforts to take the risk to take the necessary steps toward ongoing recovery, at the patient’s own pace. The professionals at Weyland have learned that pushing people tends to encourage behavioral or literal relapse. Weyland supports their patients and supports then in finding their own way, while honoring their needs and personal beliefs.
If you have a family member, friend or co-worker that needs help to overcome this painful, destructive illness while allowing the continuation of life's obligations with minimal interruption and are located in the Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area in Oakland, Berkley, Danville, Concord and Walnut Creek areas - visit our website www.WeylandInterventionServices.com/ or call (925) 945-7816 ext. 41.
