The INDIVIDUAL INTERVENTION is sometimes referred to as the “client-centered” intervention (Carl Rogers, mainstream psychology).  Almost always, a family member or significant other will make the call to an interventionist with a desperate plea for help.

Motivational Interviewing (William R. Miller, Stephen Rollnick – 2002 – Psychology) is the technique employed by the interventionist when speaking to the first time caller.  This technique is also applied throughout the intervention process.  This process helps identify which “Stage of Change” (Prochaska and DiClemente’s) the caller is in.  It is important to note that there are 5 Stages of Change:  Pre-contemplation (not thinking about change), Contemplation (ambivalent about change), Preparation (plan to act), Action (practicing new behavior) and Maintenance (sustaining new behavior).  The caller may be at the Preparation Stage in the change process.  The identified addict may only be at the Pre-contemplation stage.

Already, there is conflict in the process.