An alcoholism intervention is a process of approaching an alcoholic in a loving way to get them to accept help with their problem. To stage a successful intervention, specific guidelines should be followed, including educating participants about alcoholism, choosing a neutral location, limiting participants to close friends and family, keeping the intervention short, and consulting a specialist.
When an alcoholic remains in complete denial about his illness and how it affects him and those around him, family, close friends and colleagues may choose to stage an alcoholism intervention. An intervention is a process of approaching an alcoholic in a loving way to get him to accept help with his problem. To stage a successful alcoholism intervention, there are specific guidelines that should be followed.
The first thing to do when planning an alcoholism intervention is to educate participants about the disease of alcoholism before a confrontation. Alcoholism education helps participants understand the behavior of their alcoholic and how addiction affects people who suffer from it. The instruction also serves as a vehicle for participants to learn how to approach loved ones without getting angry, attacking, and defensive.
Another important guideline for an alcoholism intervention is location. The intervention must take place on a neutral field. The alcoholic will become defensive if he feels attacked in his home. If he feels that his family, his friends and his colleagues are up to something in their house, he can simply leave. Neutral ground forces the intervention participants and the alcoholic to remain calm, cool, and collected.
Persons invited to participate in the intervention should be limited to close friends, family and colleagues, when it may be appropriate. The alcoholic has already learned to hide his habit and secrets from her in certain situations. To reach him it is necessary to fill the intervention of people who truly love and care about his healing and also of people who are close to him and whom he has really hurt.
Finally, the surgery shouldn’t last longer than 60-90 minutes. Longer sessions set the mood for emotions to go haywire. Anger can flare up from all sides. Similarly, compassion for the alcoholic and the alcoholic’s compassion for the people he may have harmed will diminish when the intervention goes on for too long.
Before confronting a loved one, people planning an intervention should consult a drug and alcohol addiction specialist. These professionals are experienced with alcoholic behavior and regularly conduct formal interventions. While it is not necessary to have a specialist present during an operation, it is highly recommended. At the very least, a specialist can guide an alcoholic’s family and friends through the correct actions of an alcoholism intervention.
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