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We’ll see the progress that was occurring even when the addict appeared, at the time, to be floundering badly.

Counselors are taught that the best way to make progress is to let the client determine the direction the relationship takes.

Intervention is about achieving a very specific time-limited objective: an addict or alcoholic who agrees to participate in treatment.

Many good interveners—including some excellent professional intervention counselors—started out as primary enablers.

If perfectionism, long-held resentments, or the unreasonable expectations we have of our wonderful selves get in the way, we’re still stuck.

None of us can change our past or exercise much control over what’s yet to come.

Building the group model around that common experience, and change-specific tasks or goals, may increase the chances for a successful outcome.

The same people whose “enabling” actions allow the disease to flourish— and who may feel helpless to confront it— are the ones who can be most effective as interveners.

When addicts and alcoholics are unprepared for the reality of sobriety, it’s all too easy to run back to the familiar hell of addiction.

Practically every form of group devised has been adapted and put to use at some facility.