Addiction and Mental Health Disorder Intervention Services in Nevada

What our S.A.F.E.® (Self Awareness Family Education™) Intervention Services & Family Recovery Coaching Program in Nevada can do for Your Family and Loved One.

Addiction and Mental Health Interventions in Nevada and anywhere else in the Country should focus on why the person does not see the need to change, while addressing the family system preventing the change. While we are not saying that addiction or mental health is the family’s fault, we are saying the family often contributes to the worsening of the problem. It is true that families, unaware of their actions, contribute more to loved ones not getting well than they contribute to them getting well. Dysfunctional family roles, codependency, enabling, split family opinions, fighting with one another, being consumed in the drama of addiction, and mental health are just a few of the many reasons your loved one may not be turning a corner. Addiction and mental health are not a victimless crime, it affects and devastates anyone close to the person struggling and even further beyond that. If the environment, one of the number one predictors of outcomes, does not change, there is little hope for long-term success.

What our Nevada Intervention Services do for your family is help you see where, why, and how things can change. So many families try to control their loved ones’ addiction and mental health through comfort, enabling, and codependency. When this occurs, other family members become resentful. Most believe they resent the person needing help, and their real resentments lie with the one giving all their attention to the family member with addiction and mental health issues. At Family First Intervention, we see this and address it. Our S.A.F.E.® Intervention Services are not simply people coming to your home to inspire your loved one to get well. If that is all you are looking for, then we suggest you attend an Open, not Closed, Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous meeting, where anyone can attend and ask some of the members to come to your house and do that for free. If your family is ready and willing to do the work that is necessary for themselves for your loved one to make a change, then we can help you.

Addiction & Mental Health Intervention Services for Families Still Waiting for Their Loved One to Ask for Help or Hit Bottom.

How long must a family wait before their loved one asks for help or wants help? What determines whether they want help or ask for help? While families are often told their loved ones must want help or hit bottom before anything can improve, how can they expedite this process? One of the number one predictors of a successful outcome in Mental Health, Drug Addiction, and Alcoholism recovery is the environment. The environment consists of several factors, including things contributing to the person needing help being unable to see the need for help. In this regard, the environment includes the family system that may or may not be helping the individual feel the consequences or even acknowledge the need to change course.

For families in Nevada and the United States, there are options and opportunities to help your loved one advocate for their care and take the next step towards treatment for their alcoholism, drug addiction, or mental health disorder(s). When an intervention is done correctly, it should address the entire family, not just the person needing help. Most interventionists in Nevada and Nationwide only focus on the obvious: talking your loved one into a treatment facility. As crucial as that part of the intervention is, it is the easiest and quickest. Many reading this can’t believe that to be true, and it is. Families are most fearful of the part of an intervention that is the smallest part. The work that must be done on the front end and the overwhelming family aftercare support that must be done on the back end of the intervention are the most time-consuming and contribute the most to whether the intervention will yield any positive results. Any family reading this who has had a loved one go to treatment several times or promised to get help repeatedly knows something is not working. If the only thing happening is your loved one going to treatment or promising to go to treatment, and nothing else changes, then neither will they.

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.