Questions:
1.
What are the five negotiation styles found in the families of addicts?
2.
What are four key considerations in preparing for a structured family
intervention?
3.
What are the first five steps in preparing for a structured family
intervention?
4.
What is one of the most important components of intervention and family healing?
5.
What are the three sections to an intervention letter?
6.
What are steps 6-10 in preparing for a structured
family intervention?
7.
What are steps 6-10 in preparing for a structured
family intervention? |
Answers:
A. Writing an intervention letter; brainstorming objections;
determining bottom lines; rehearsing the intervention; and the intervention itself.
B. Building a team; setting up a planning
meeting; choosing a team chairperson; discussing the
negative consequences of the addiction; and listing ways family
members have unwittingly enabled the addiction.
C. The love section, the honesty section,
and the hope-for-the-future section.
D. The addict should
not be forewarned of the intervention; many clients need
to be reminded that the addiction, not the addict, is the
adversary; family members need to learn skills for an intervention;
and possible complications might require additional professional
help.
E. To recognize how love and fear become enabling behaviors.
F. Adversaries,
aggressors, appeasers, avoiders, and analysts.
G. Providing the non-using partner with information about the change process, "incompatible activities", "responding","contracting", and "confrontation".
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