Intervention
David Ryan, a well-known drug counselor once said, “You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.” (Ryan). Intervention is a show designed to make the main characters, the addicts, think that they are making a documentary about drugs. What they do not know is that they will soon face an intervention involving several of their loved ones and family members. The show drastically goes deep into the minds of the characters and exploits their reasoning for their drug abuse. Unlike a sitcom, this show dramatically grabs the “real life” emotions from the character involved and sinks their sorrows into anyone who watches.
In episode Thirteen, Brooks, a teenager addicted to any and every drug, is followed around by a camera crew over a long period of time to document his addiction. In an average week, Brooks takes ecstasy, smokes more than one hundred and fifty joints, and snorts pills and cocaine in order to maintain balanced on this lopsided see-saw. The people behind the scenes of the show use technical editing to bring out a stronger understanding of what is going on at that time. Music, blurred vision, and subtitles are thrown out at the viewer constantly to bring them more in-depth on the situation. Brooks is sought out to be the average teenage boy. He was an outstanding athlete and did the things that any hormone enraged teenager would do. Although, it was the accident with the All Terrain Vehicle that brought Brooks to the brink of destruction. Brooks was not “The Other” in the eye of society until he became paralyzed from the waist down and began involving himself with drugs. Getting high seemed to have grabbed his soul from the shadows and brought him a new meaning towards life.
It didn’t matter what he put into his body, as long as it brought him back up on the pedestal that he was used to standing on; nothing and no one could stop him. Producers magnify this issue by showing still images of photos when he wrestled and pictures of him smiling with his friends and loved ones. Brook’s characteristics do not imply to others that he is well by any means. His ragged clothes, fidgety eyes, and lifeless way of using his words automatically cements the image of an outcast in our minds. The camera crew feeds on this information and explodes it to another degree.
Chasing Heroin is a two-hour documentary that investigates America’s heroin crisis. The documentary details the opioid epidemic and how police offers, social workers, and public defenders are working to save the lives of addicts. The documentary explores the origins and continuing causes behind the heroin epidemic such as; massive increases in opioid painkillers starting at the turn of the century, Mexican drug cartels who are now rooted in upper-middle-class neighborhoods, and the cheap price of heroin when compared to prescription pain killers. A program in Seattle called LEAD is explored. This program channels addicts into a system that points them toward help (rehab, temporary housing, counseling, methadone treatment) instead of prison
The different therapies throughout treatment allow for a variety of ways to break the addiction and focus on other aspects of life. One of the treatments featured a health class in which Gwen learned about liver cirrhosis and was able to see what would happen to her body if her addictions continued. This class allowed the participants to get a view on what the drugs and alcohol or other addictions really did to the body and why stopping is crucial. Another type of therapy is group therapy. This type of therapy consists of everyone sitting in a circle, admitting their wrong-doings and using “feeling words” to describe emotions that may be occurring. This type of therapy shows that treatment programs rely on the personal experience of everyone in order to help others. The teamwork and interconnectedness between participants made each individual feel like there was someone on their side. Some other therapies involved in the treatment program included character feeling done with the horses, emotional expression when Gwen blew off her anger, different therapeutic tools such as the signs around the neck and connected therapy with family members or children. The variety of therapies portrayed throughout the film allow treatment programs to be open to anyone that learns and changes differently from
According to the textbook there are three ways to intervene with group members. The three ways are intrapersonal interventions, Interpersonal interventions and environmental interventions. Intrapersonal intervention focuses on cognition and the affects, interpersonal intervention focuses on relationships and environmental intervention focuses on seeking change. I might use intrapersonal intervention to see if someone beliefs affect the decision that was or will be made. Which is very important because a persons belief system can have impact on the ay that they think. That is one reason why in social work that social workers have to be mindful about their own personal beliefs having a impact on their practice. An example would be if a person
It is amazing to know how much studies has been done and the good outcome of the practice on forgiveness intervention with the hope focused couple approach for 20 years (Ripley & Worthington, 2014). The FREE model is based on the forgiveness – based intervention that has been beneficial for many years to help the couple rekindle their love and forgive each other. It can be used with adults, parents, couples and adolescents.
The main character is Janine Starr. She is overly shy, a bookworm, and an extremely religious Christian; however, she is an undercover cop. She works for the New York Police Department. In order for her to be promoted to a “detective” she has to work at a local strip joint, “ChiChi’s,” on West 8th Street. The reason for her to work at ChiChi’s is to bust the city’s top drug tycoon, Miguel Martinez.
This episode of Intervention is about Jeanna. Jeanna is a twenty-five year-old, homeless, and jobless woman living in Madras, Oregon. During the episode she was living in a trailer on her friend Josh’s property, but was evicted due to drug use. Jeanna is addicted to crystal meth and she injects through an IV three times a day for the past four years. She has been unable to hold a job since her use became so frequent. She stated that when she is in a binge she will stay up for almost seven days straight. She admits to selling her body for money to buy drugs, and her mother described her as sweetly manipulating men at bars to get money for drugs. Her father was in prison the majority of her life and when he got out he wanted to begin to build
...t I cannot. I had learned a lot about this just from watching the episode. I never thought that the other end of a relationship with an addict is to itself a problem. I was really glad to see though that his wife had gotten help and in fact Coley did not go through the process alone, that the family in a whole recognized that they needed to heal and go through more than just Coley getting treatment. I guess to an extent I see how that works hand in hand with treatment of the addict because when he comes home he is coming back to a stronger support system that is not going to allow for his past behavior. I really enjoy Intervention, the show because it shows more than the addicts point of view, it shows more than just them going to treatment, it shows families that are devastated from addiction, and it gives hope that these families can overcome the disease full force.
According to President Barak Obama there are over 20 million Americans who struggle with substance abuse. (OBAMA, B. 2014). Although addiction is rampant in the United States there are intervention programs available for those who are seeking out recovery. Researchers explain that addiction is a
One thing I will say is that I recommend everyone to attend a 12 step meeting because it is a gainful experience. Hearing a young man, Brain, speak about his struggles with cocaine and trying to recover was an eye opener. One might not be able to relate, but one can understand their perspective. It was a coincidence how the spokesperson pointed out that Brain would touch his nose every time he said the word “cocaine.” Brian’s addiction took away his privilege to have a driver’s license from getting charged with several DUI’s (driving under the influence). He complained about his girlfriend giving him rides to work every morning, and how he hated that he had to wait for her instead of leaving the house and drive to work whenever he wanted to. He hated how he wasn’t able to take his girlfriend out to dates. He hated how he was never going to get that privilege back all because of
As a school counselor, it is important to be knowledgeable about children and adolescents developmental level in order to choose the appropriate intervention. Vernon (2009) mentions in the text that "counselors must also consider developmental factors in conceptualizing problems, in designing or selecting age-appropriate assessment instruments, and in developing interventions that take into account the child's developmental capabilities" (p. 5). The effect that the developmental levels have on the choice of internvention is that it depends on children and adolescents situtation in terms of physical, cognitive, social and emotional factors. When it comes to those factors, School counselors need to be mindful that children and adolescents
The film Requiem for a Dream conveys to its viewers the destruction to an individual’s life if they fall victim to addiction. Sara was placed in a mental hospital, Harry lost his arm, Marion partook in explicit sexual endeavors, ripping her of her morals, and Tyrone was arrested and jailed, where he experienced critical withdrawal symptoms. These are all situations that could have been avoided. It is important for someone to think before they intake any drug even the mildest of forms because, who knows? They may be next to fall victim to
Tie to the audience: You would need to know what to do to support your friend should they seek help but first you need to know what all addiction entails, right?
A behavioral intervention plan (BIP) is designed for a specific child to try to help that child learn to change her or his behavior. Once the function of a student 's behavior has been determined, the Individual Education Program (IEP) Team should develop the behavior intervention plan A behavioral intervention plan can be thought of as a plan to support the student in order to help him or her change behavior. Effective support plans consist of multiple interventions or support strategies and are not punishment. Positive behavioral intervention plans increase the acquisition and use of new alternative skills, decrease the problem behavior and facilitate general improvements in the quality of life of the individual, his or her family, and
Applied social psychologists carry a unique responsibility in that their vision of the world’s problems must be viewed through a lens of change. When an applied social psychologist sees a problem the question that arises is this a human behavior problem. Once that is determined they look to “how people think about, feel about, relate to, and influence one another” (Schneider, Gruman, & Coutts, 2012). Applied social psychology is science based so that in order to address the problem the approach must be methodical and be able to proving causality. To initiate the sequence there must “observation, theory development, deduction (hypothesis development), and hypothesis testing”
Drug addiction is a very big problem in today’s society. Many people have had their lives ruined due to drug addiction. The people that use the drugs don’t even realize that they have an addiction. They continue to use the drug not even realizing that their whole world is crashing down around them. Drug addicts normally lose their family and friends due to drug addiction.