Interventions have been a tool of the addiction recovery worker over the last fifteen years. By displaying compassion and a non judgemental attitude, key relationships can be used to facilitate a sense of empowerment within the emotional condition of the loved one who is bound within the addictive process.
The aim of our service is to provide a professional forum where this process can be introduced and effectively applied. The interventionists' facilitating these programmes are themselves trained professionals and grateful recovering alcoholics / addicts who have personal experience of the despair and powerlessness within addiction. They are also living examples that recovery can be attained and maintained.
Why Intervention ?
How many times have you heard professionals utter the mantra:
"They need to want to stop and there is nothing you can do"
This approach leaves the loved one in desperation and floundering as much as the individual they are watching self destruct.
An intervention dispels this myth and empowers the loved one to initiate direct action to challenge the negativity of the self destructive and addictive process. By utilising the power of an intervention the denial that maintains active addiction is overcome by an emotional realisation that love does exist, and its practical application within the intervention process replaces the necessity for an emotional 'rock bottom'. This enables the process of recovery to become possible.
During pre-intervention stage treatment options are discussed and agreed. After intervention the client is safely guided by two members of KIT into primary care.
