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An intervention is a coordinated attempt by one or more people in a person’s life to encourage them to seek professional help when dealing with an addiction or other life crises.

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How Do I Move a “Heart” Client Into His/Her “Head”?

Written By: Date: April 9th, 2009. Topic: Intervention.

In our first article of Head, Heart and Feet, we encouraged the addiction counselor to notice whether the client moved through the world as a thinker, feeler, or reactor and we promised to offer the counselor exercises that assist clients who are stuck in their head or heart or feet.  People “stuck in their head” [...]

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How Do I Move a “Head” Client Into His/Her“Heart”?

Written By: Date: February 5th, 2009. Topic: Intervention.

In our previous article, Head, Heart and Feet, we promised to offer the counselor exercises that assist clients who are stuck in their head or heart or feet.  People “stuck in their head” think their feelings.  People “stuck in their hearts” feel their thoughts and often engage in catastrophic thinking.  People who are “stuck in [...]

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Head Heart and Feet

Written By: Date: September 25th, 2008. Topic: Intervention.

In psychology, the words cognitive, affective and behavioral describe the domains or areas of the human being where disturbances can take place.  If there are disturbances in the thinking processes, we use words such as suicidal ideation, dementia, or delirium to describe cognitive distortions or disturbances in thinking.  If there are disturbances of feelings we [...]

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