Is your brother addicted to smoking? Do you feel your friend needs to stop drinking because it changes him?? It is then time to intervene in his life and convey to him the perils to which your near and dear ones are pushing their life into. This is called as intervention. Interventions have been conducted for long and are considered to be very harmless. It is defined as an orchestrated attempt by the family and friends of an individual, which might help someone to put an end to an addiction in general.
It in general include confrontational meeting with the individual. This meeting is generally attended by a co-dependent family of the individual and a group of close friends. The concept of interventions is not very old. In the decade of ‘60 intervention as a help towards an addict was started by Dr. Vernon Johnson. For years to come this was the technique used for interventions and The Johnson Model was subsequently taught at the Johnson Institute. This model pioneered the way of intervention and till today is used for reference purposes. But there are many who accuse it to be of ambushing nature. But still it is considered to be one of the oldest and tried and tested kinds of models.
