Mediated Brief

Interventions have many negative aspects that can affect both the patient and the loved ones that are involved. The primary purpose for interventions is to help the addict or the person suffering seek professional assistance in order to get better. Not all interventions help the patient get better. Some interventions are not successful and cause the patient to break down or go back to old habits. There are three main reasons that interventions could negatively affect someone such as interventions can make the patient feel isolated and betrayed, interventions can bring up hidden emotions, and interventions can have a financial burden on the people involved especially the family of the addict. After evaluating the opinions of the positive side it has been agreed upon that, interventions do have negative affects, but the good effects outweigh the bad for three specific reasons.
Reason 1: Interventions provide the help that the patient really needs to have a better life. With the help of interventions the victim could gradually escape the many problems that they once faced. The patient can continue on to a life of prosperity and happiness.
Reason 2: Interventions can either bring up hidden emotions or heal old wounds, but it depends on the people involved in the situation at hand. For some people an intervention could bring up old family secrets that wasn’t suppose to be revealed. For others the addiction has created a pot hole in their family environment and the emotions and thoughts revealed in the intervention may be the glue that puts their family back together.
Reason 3: Although, the idea of paying for the intervention process is better than the idea of supporting the addict’s habits, interventions could also cause a financial burden to most families. Not all families that participate in intervention have the money to pay for a state- of –art treatment facility. I am sure that the family of the patient would like the patient to have the best treatment that money could buy, but this is a dream to some of the families that participate in the intervention process. Money can be a huge deal when it comes to a successful intervention.