How to Plan and Deliver an Effective Intervention

By John McMahon

Family Interventions can be one of the most successful strategies in helping your drinker to change. Despite this, families seldom use this method as it appears too complicated. However, this Book is designed to provide a step-by-step guide to help families to plan and deliver an effective intervention for individuals struggling with problem drinking.
When an Intervention is done well, it is a very powerful tool to promote change. And if you follow the steps in this book, you will do the Intervention well and there is a high probability that you will impact the drinker positively. However, even if the drinker does not respond as you hoped, navigating these steps of the Intervention can still prove to be very empowering for the family members involved
This book was produced by Bottled Up, a Free website to help families of alcoholics. The website was created and is maintained by Lou Lewis and John McMahon, a husband and wife team. The website was created in 2009 to fill a need for good, research based with a human and empathic slant, information and help for the families of alcoholics. Lou who is a counsellor with her own private practice, was married to an alcoholic for 29 years till his death. John was an alcoholic who was hospitalised and given 6 months to live. He subsequently returned to education, gained a degree in Psychology, then a PhD and went on to write and teach the largest postgraduate course on Alcohol and Drug Studies in the UK. So the book contains best practice filtered through the lens of personal experience. We have walked the walk and can talk the talk (professionally and personally.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H7N7TTC7
• ISBN13: 9798198309036
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"