Addiction and Mental Health Disorder Intervention Services in Delaware

With the Help of Our S.A.F.E.® (Self Awareness Family Education™) Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services, Families in Delaware do not have to Wait for their Loved One to Want Help or Hit Bottom.

The two number one predictors of outcomes in addiction and mental health treatment are the client-counselor relationship and the environment. The environment is where the person is either comfortable or uncomfortable. The second stage of change in addiction and mental health treatment is the contemplation stage. In this stage, the person must see and feel the need to do something different before they move on to the following three stages. So, how does this tie together? The answer is simple. When the environment is conducive to allowing the intended patient to stay the same, then they will. The environment is rarely, if ever, comfortable solely in the hands of the one who needs help. The family almost always makes the environment comfortable. If the family allows the problem to hang around, the person will not see the need to address the issue. You’re not there if you can’t see or feel the bottom. You need to see a problem before you ask for help or want help.

Before psychologically dissecting what was said above, there are many ways to keep the environment comfortable while putting blinders on the one who needs help. The ways can be obvious, enabling cosigning to the problem and not taking adequate measures to correct the problem. Families tell us every day that they have done everything. By the end of the call or session, they realize they have not only done nothing, but they have done nothing that would bring their loved one any closer to getting better. The reason is that they tried to address the problem and not the environment. The only control people have is control over themselves, and some are incapable of doing that. If a family can’t control their own lives because of the emotional and mental heartache of their loved one’s addiction or mental health, how can they assume they can maintain their loved one? Families want to believe they have some control and do so with themselves and the environment, not directly over the person who needs help.

People with addiction and mental health issues are not going to ask for help, want help, or hit bottom when their environment is preventing them from doing so. People will not address a problem they do not believe they have. From the family standpoint, the best thing a family can do is hold themselves and their loved ones accountable for their actions. Your loved one will never learn to do something different, and you will not know that you must let them feel the consequences of their actions. 

What Families in Delaware can expect from our S.A.F.E.® Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services.

Families in Delaware and elsewhere can expect to have to do the work, too. The greatest mistake we see families make is believing that the only thing that needs to change is their loved one. This belief is responsible mainly for continued failed attempts at treatment, frustration, and loss of hope on behalf of the family. What families expect from their loved ones is what they must do. In our S.A.F.E.® Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services program, we help families understand how they got here and why. Through psychoeducation and ongoing coaching, families will know why they have received the results. Families can also expect to see why they acted the way they did and what benefit it provided them. The problem may not be the family’s fault, and how they have addressed the issue often is.

Living as an emotional hostage to a loved one with addiction or mental health issues is not enjoyable for anyone. Families who choose to be hostages get more comfortable with it as time passes. Unhealthy family roles and relationships, along with acquired maladaptive coping skills, take center stage, and the control of addiction, mental health, and behaviors runs the show. Families can expect two things. If they continue as they are, they can expect things to get worse. Secondly, if the family starts taking their life back, there is no guarantee that their loved one will, and there is no guarantee that the family will. Before you hold us to that guarantee, the only one who can make that guarantee possible is your family by doing the required work.  

Interventions are not about your loved one going to treatment to address their addiction or mental health, although that is the desired result. Interventions are about families knowing they did all they could to stop it and to offer their loved ones a lifeline while entering family recovery and improving the quality of their lives. Think about how often someone has asked you how your loved one is doing. Now ask yourself, when was the last time anybody asked how you were? 

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.