Love First: A Family’s Guide to Intervention (Love First Family Recovery)

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This revised and expanded third edition of the gold-standard for intervention provides clear steps for harnessing the power of family, friends, and professionals to create a better future with loved ones suffering from addiction.

Over the course of the last twenty years, Love First has become the go-to intervention guide for tens of thousands of families. This trailblazing book empowers and equips families and friends to use the power of love and honesty to give their addicted loved ones a chance to reach for help. Updated with the latest addiction science as well as insights gained from decades of front-line experience in family interventions, this revised and expanded edition contains practical tools for taking the next step together: transforming the intervention team into an ongoing community of loving support, lasting accountability, and lifelong recovery.

From the Publisher

The Most Important Step to Initiate the Recovery Process

The journey to recovery is full of twists, turns, roadblocks and potholes. At each fork in the road lies a new nightmare—refusing treatment, not staying in treatment, not staying sober after treatment.

If you have a loved one struggling with addiction, you know all too well the loss, fear, doubt and isolation. Throughout history, you may have wrongly been taught that when it comes to those battling addiction, families are the problem. However, Love First: A Families Guide to Intervention shines a light on the truth—that families can become a transformational power that endures all things.

Intervention is the most powerful and effective tool families can use to help a loved one reach long-term recovery. But we’re not talking about the confrontational, insulting model. In this book, authors Jeff Jay and Debra Jay offer a step-by-step guide that shows you how to help your loved one with grace, kindness and love. This gentle yet assertive model supports families with a comforting, enlightening and inspiring approach to intervention, treatment and long-term recovery.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hazelden Publishing
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 27, 2021
Edition ‏ : ‎ 3rd
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 340 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1616499095
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1616499099
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
Part of series ‏ : ‎ Structured Family
Best Sellers Rank: #114,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #56 in Drug Dependency & Recovery (Books) #136 in Alcoholism Recovery #144 in Substance Abuse Recovery
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