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johnson model intervention  

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  • Vernon Johnson, the founder of the Johnson Institute associated with the Minnesota model of treatment, described the process of intervention that has been widely used in motivating alcoholics-addicts to seek treatment in his books I'll Quit Tomorrow and Intervention: How to Help Someone Who Doesn't Want Help. The Johnson intervention is based on the disease model of addiction. [Source: Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, & Recovery; Johnson Model Intervention]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-G49JW42G-8

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