1064-Uncovering the Power of Total Family Intervention

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Social Sciences, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Science, Education

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Chapters: 00:00:00 - Overview of Total Family Intervention 00:02:18 - Empathy and Interventions for Mental Health Issues 00:04:44 - The Importance of Interventions for Mental Health 00:06:52 - The Importance of Interventionists with Adequate Training 00:09:09 - Effects of Addiction on Family Dynamics 00:11:27 - Involving the Whole Family in Interventions 00:13:44 - Impact of Addictive Behaviors on Family Members 00:16:00 - Impact on Loved Ones of Addiction and Mental Health Disorders 00:18:11 - Challenges of understanding bipolar disorder 00:20:21 - Total Family Intervention Steps 00:22:22 - The Initial Contact in an Intervention 00:24:28 - Educating about Interventions 00:26:33 - Developing Hope Through Intervention 00:28:47 - Motivating factors for interventions 00:33:07 - Involuntary Commitment for Addiction and Mental Health Issues 00:35:18 - Managing Stress and Setting Boundaries 00:37:43 - Screening for Addiction and Mental Health Issues 00:39:49 - Making a Plan for Change 00:42:01 - Initial Placement for Treatment 00:44:08 - Overcoming barriers to seeking treatment 00:46:25 - Impact of Behavior on Relationships 00:48:42 - Handling objections in interventions 00:50:51 - Effective Intervention Strategies 00:53:09 - Moving Forward towards Treatment 00:55:23 - Empowering Patients through Follow-Up 00:57:26 - The Importance of Intervention Timing 00:59:47 - On-Demand CEUs for Podcast Viewers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'd like to welcome everybody today's presentation on the overview of total family intervention.
0:11.8	I'm your host, Dr. Donnelly Snipez.
0:15.5	In this presentation, we're obviously not going to learn everything there is to know about interventions.
0:24.3	My goal is to help you understand what it is.
0:28.6	So when you hear about it happening, you know what's going on and you can formulate some ideas.
0:34.0	We want to identify who typically does an intervention and for what reasons and explore the
0:39.7	basic steps of an intervention. Now, we do have a class at all CEUs. We have a track that has
0:46.6	over 100 hours that helps train people to do interventions because there is a lot to know.
0:54.2	Interventions are approaches like in SBIRT.
0:58.4	If you look up SBIRT online or go to SAMHSA and look it up, it stands for screening,
1:04.4	brief intervention and referral for treatment.
1:06.7	This is your most basic form of intervention.
1:10.8	And SAMHSA has really promoted it as a tool for
1:13.6	primary care physicians to do interventions in office when they have identified that somebody
1:21.2	that they are treating has a problem.
1:24.6	So interventions are approaches or meetings designed to facilitate entry into the
1:29.4	into treatment by a person with an addiction or a mental health issue who is not yet in the
1:35.9	action phase of change. Now remember with our phases of change, we've got pre-contemplation.
1:41.0	The person says, I don't have a problem. Leave me alone. Contemplation,
1:45.0	they recognize they've got a problem, but it's overwhelming to even think about moving on.
1:50.0	Preparation, they know they've got a problem. They're starting to look around at their options to think about what they might do.
1:58.0	And action is when they actually start treatment. And obviously, if an intervention
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