Amber Hollingsworth recommends starting with individual counseling using motivational interviewing if your loved one is in a bargaining stage. If they're actively trying to stop, intensive outpatient treatment (2-3 hours per session, about 3 times weekly) is a low-level effective option for someone who can't quit alone.
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If your loved one agrees to get help, what would be the first form of help you would recommend? And then what others prior to the Big Daddy might be a natural progression. If they're still in a bargaining phase, means they're still in the phase of, well, I think I can manage it. Then I would recommend individual counseling. And if you can find somebody that has been trained in something called motivational interviewing, that's a specialized technique that's used in these kind of situations to help move someone through the stages of change, through those bargaining stages, that would be what I'd recommend. Then if the say I'm going to agree to get some help and they're actually trying to stop, like their goal is, I don't want to do this anymore, then I would probably recommend. The lowest level would be like intensive outpatient treatment, which is usually two or three hours, about three times a week. That's probably the lowest level of treatment that I've seen work for somebody who was really addicted and was trying to stop on their own but having a hard time.
