Intervention: How to Help Someone Who Doesn't Want Help

by Vernon E. Johnson

Book Overview

In simple terms, this book shows how chemical dependency affects those around the addicted person, and teaches concerned people how to help and how to do it right.

In Intervention: How To Help Someone Who Doesn't Want Help, Dr. Vernon Johnson describes the process that has successfully motivated thousands of chemically dependent people to accept help. In simple terms, this book shows how chemical dependency affects those around the addicted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935908315
• ISBN13: 9780935908312
• Release Date: July 1986
• Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Intervention

This book is short, concise and to the point. Anyone interested in the process of intervention; especially those who do not want it, will greatly appreciate this book. Full of great wisdom and gives hope to those who feel no hope in trying to help those who are suffering from addiction.

Intervention: How to Help Someone who doesn't want Help

A must read for anyone who has someone in their life that has the disease of addiction. There is not a lot that can be done to stop someone on their destructive path but a well run and meaningful intervention can be very powerful. It can help them on the path to see reality and take the first step to recovery.

Intervention: How to Help someone Who Doesn't Want Help

Outstanding. A huge help. A must read for anyone with an alcoholic in the family.

This helped me sooooo much

My father almost drank himself to death,literally. My sister and I decided on an intervention and knowing my dad knew we couldn't have a stranger present...so it was up to us to plan an intervention that he would "hear". This book literally gave me the "know how" to plan the intervention. More importantly it gave me an understanding of how someone becomes an alcoholic in straightforward terms that made sense, not just to me but to my sister and aunt who I insisted read this manual as well. If you have someone in your life that needs your help...Vernon Johnson's "Intervention" is an outstanding place to start!

Best there is to use!

Sub-titles say what this book provides: How to help someone who doesn't want help! "for families and friends of chemically dependent persons."Step by step led help to do this necessary but difficult process. Ends with a most useful "intervention scenario" with also the strong admonition to "seek professional aid" when dealing with cases involving mental illness, violence, etc.Short, concise, yet jam full of what you'll need to have prepared for, thought through and rehearsed.