Intervention: Reducing Compassion Fatigue
About to give up on someone who needs help?
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This book is designed to help religious leaders, professional counselors, concerned family members, and individuals offer viable appropriate levels of care to someone with an addiction problem who refuses to accept assisted living conditions or comply with medical advice. Use the tools in this book to increase the awareness of the issue and acceptance of recovery.
Learn how to avoid compassion fatigue while using healthy personal boundaries. Because these tools are likely used in an emotional setting, the least emotionally involved helper or leader is the best person for attempting an organized intervention. When that less emotionally involved person is not available, a family member may choose to use this material and know they have attempted to offer choices. The family member will be able to find serenity after going through this process.
This book teaches a mini-intervention or one-on-one short meeting as a setup for a full-blown maxi-intervention later, if necessary. If the maxi-intervention is not successful at first, next steps and consequences are taught. These steps are in keeping with Jesus’ instructions on how to approach someone with an issue.
This book compiles thirty-nine years of studying and experience of achieving compliance with the best of care for someone refusing help with a serious issue. I have led over 800 family interventions. In using these steps and illustrations, 90 percent of the full maxi-interventions result in beginning the first stages of treatment or recovery.
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This book is designed to help religious leaders, professional counselors, concerned family members, and individuals offer viable, appropriate levels of care to someone with an addiction problem, one who refuses to accept assisted-living conditions or comply with medical advice. Using tools in this book can increase awareness of the issue and acceptance of recovery.
Learn how to avoid compassion fatigue while using healthy personal boundaries. Because these tools are likely used in an emotional setting, the least emotionally involved helper or leader is the best person for attempting an organized intervention. Concerned others may be able to find serenity after going through this process.
This book teaches a mini-intervention or one-on-one short meeting as a setup for a full-blown maxi-intervention later, if necessary. If the maxi-intervention is not successful at first, next steps and consequences are taught. These steps are in keeping with Jesus’ instructions on how to approach someone with an issue.
This book compiles thirty-nine years of studying and experience of achieving compliance with the best of care for someone refusing help with a serious issue. In using these steps and illustrations, 90 percent of the full maxi-interventions result in beginning the first stages of treatment or recovery.
About the Author
Al Jameson and his wife, Judy, live in Fort Worth, Texas. Al has a master's degree and is a licensed professional counselor and a licensed chemical dependency counselor. Al has conducted more than eight hundred family interventions since 1973 and has a private counseling practice for over twenty years. He has master’s-level training in conflict resolution from Pepperdine University and Abilene Christian University. Conferences from Texas to New York to Saudi Arabia have asked him to speak. He is currently working in an assignment for the Department of Defense serving military members and their families. jameson.al@gmail.com