Addiction and Mental Health Disorder Intervention Services in South Dakota

With Our S.A.F.E.® (Self Awareness Family Education™) Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services Families learn they do not have to wait for their loved one to Want Help or Hit Bottom.

If you look back on your life with your loved one who needs help, it wasn’t always this way. There was probably a time when they did not control your every thought and emotion with their behaviors and choices. Constant worry keeps you up at night, and families sometimes argue and fight over what should be done. Some will say there is nothing you can do about it until your loved one wants help or hits bottom; others will say let them go and cut them off. Regardless of where the family is at, the family not being on the same page is primarily, in part, the problem. Families focus on the person with addiction and mental health struggles and rarely focus on their needs. As you wait for your loved one to want help or hit bottom, your family needs help and is near the bottom, so why can’t the family seek help first? 

Families in South Dakota and elsewhere can seek help first and must make the first move because their loved ones will not. We know this because you are on our addiction and mental health intervention services website. Some want and accept help without a formal intervention, and those who do this have had some form of intervention. Nobody wakes up, lists all the great things in their life, and says that today is a great day to go to treatment. People who want help have been brought to a crossroads of realization. The realization is knowing that the consequences of the lifestyle are more significant than the benefits of the lifestyle. When your loved one is not getting there on their own, your family needs to initiate the intervention that will take place at some point anyway. If your family does not intervene before they want help or hit bottom, society will. The lifestyle of an alcoholic or someone who has a drug addiction or a mental health disorder is unsustainable. As the intended patient takes their family with them, they are moving closer and closer to an intervention where there is no coming back. Your family has two options at this point. The first is allowing things to continue while you hope and pray that they do something without intervention. The second option is initiating the intervention to allow your family some level of control over the outcome by helping them reach their bottom on your terms rather than theirs. The best gift you can give yourself is the closure of knowing you did everything you could to help yourself and your loved one. The best gift you can give your loved one is your whole family stepping back and offering them a second chance while making the changes where they see the need for help, ask for it, and want it.

How our Intervention Services in South Dakota Help Families with loved ones with Alcoholic, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Concerns.

Almost every addiction and mental health intervention services company has a primary focus on getting your loved one into treatment. Unfortunately, this is all that is focused on and is not an intervention. Talking to someone and inspiring them to go to treatment is not an intervention but a free service called a twelve-step call. Any member of a twelve-step group will come and do that free of charge, and your family should not be paying for that. Professional addiction and mental health intervention is a process, not an event. The process requires a professional to guide the family through their recovery from the addiction and the mental health of their loved one. Intervention resources in South Dakota are slim, let alone an intervention company that offers a complete family curriculum. Our S.A.F.E.® Intervention Services focuses on the family first, then your loved one. If we only focused on our loved ones, we would only address a small part of the damage. Families go through as much, if not more than, the intended patient does. Focusing only on the person going to treatment would be selfish for the intended patient and their family.

Like most interventionists, we do speak with your loved one. Unlike most interventionists, that is the process’s smallest and most straightforward part. When families retain our addiction and mental health intervention services, they are the primary focus, not the intended patient, but why? Whether your loved one accepts help or not, the family must do something different. If your loved one chooses to destroy themselves, the family has the option of not being destroyed with them. We are not talking about tough love and kicking them to the curb. We are discussing detachment with love, family boundaries, and accountability towards your loved one and their behavior and choices. So much emphasis is on the intended patient and the diagnosis. Is it addiction, mental health, or both? The focus needs to be on the behaviors and the resistance to treatment. The treatment center they arrive at will take it from there. Remember, people do not change unless the consequences of the current situation become more significant than the perceived benefits. The fear of the unknown if change occurs is a concern for many. Our addiction and mental health intervention services in South Dakota and elsewhere help families understand this and overcome this obstacle. Our groups and one-on-one sessions with the family after the intervention continue to help families see the behaviors and manipulation of their loved ones. Our S.A.F.E.® curriculum helps you identify your unhealthy behaviors and family system roles and how they were counterproductive to growth and change for yourself and your loved one. 

The hardest part of the intervention services process is before and after the intervention. Most families fear intervention and rarely realize how difficult it is to work with them beforehand and afterward. Families need help because agreeing to the intervention is challenging, and how family behaviors and emotions come out afterward is why you are afraid that things will change. We must focus on the family; doing it any other way would be a disservice to you, your family, and your loved ones. 

Initial Consultation

Our process starts with a phone call to our office. When the family agrees, we move to a family consultation call. We begin the assessment phase after the family has approved the intervention.

Arranging the Treatment Plan and the Logistics for the Intervention

The next step is arranging the treatment plan and the logistics for the intervention. Upon arrival, our interventionist utilizes our S.A.F.E.® Intervention and Family Recovery Coaching manual as a guide.

Face-To-Face Intervention

The following day is the face-to-face intervention with your family, the interventionist, and your loved one. Regardless of the outcome, your family will move into our S.A.F.E.® program for guidance and support. The S.A.F.E.® curriculum consists of weekly family meetings with several support groups offered throughout the week. One-on-one support is available and reserved for families actively engaged in our meetings and support groups. Families are assigned homework assignments to work on goals and process the work they do for themselves outside of the S.A.F.E.® curriculum.

Outside Work for Families

The outside work can include Al-Anon, Families Anonymous, CoDA, A.C.O.A. meetings, marriage and family therapy, and individual counseling. We also encourage families to participate in hobbies and self-care activities. The S.A.F.E.® Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services and Family Recovery Coaching program is designed to help families take their lives back, regardless of whether their loved one agrees to accept your gift of a second chance at life.