Typically, we tend to think of the intervention in terms of one goal–getting the person with the addiction into treatment. That is the ultimate goal, but there are multiple goals, according to N. Fears. He named a number of goals, such as “getting the family united and invested in the recovery process, helping them understand the disease of addiction, setting up parameters and leverage points for the family and the client, working to develop communication skills to overcome obstacles in the intervention and recovery process, and getting the client set up for aftercare (in the form of groups or therapy sessions).”
The intervention thus serves to “develop a cohesive recovery process that not only helps get the client into treatment, but also helps them stay in treatment—and follows and supports them after treatment.”