When Families Can’t Get Through: Mental Health Interventions Explained with Evan Jarschauer

About this episode

Evan Jarschauer discusses the nuances of mental health interventions and how families can effectively support loved ones in crisis.

In this episode of Finding New Waters, B Reeves and Justin McClendon sit down with Evan Jarschauer, a licensed psychotherapist and mental health intervention specialist with nearly two decades of experience helping families navigate crisis, treatment, and recovery. Evan explains what makes mental health interventions different from traditional substance use interventions, why gambling and online gaming are becoming more difficult to detect, how families can take action when a loved one refuses help, and why intervention work must be done with compassion, dignity, love, and a firm backbone. TIMESTAMPS [00:00:00] Welcome to Finding New Waters with Evan Jarschauer [00:01:18] What mental health interventions actually are [00:02:38] Helping families when the message is not being received [00:03:59] Evan’s background as a licensed psychotherapist [00:05:08] What a gambling intervention can look like [00:06:21] Why online gambling is making addiction harder to see [00:07:36] “I’m not drinking. I’m not drugging” [00:08:28] Why Evan says his world has exploded with mental health, gaming, and gambling cases [00:09:34] Why interventionists should connect with casino management first…

People in this episode

Hosts: B Reeves, Justin McClendon

Guest: Evan Jarschauer

Topics covered

• mental health interventions
• family support
• gambling addiction
• crisis management
• compassionate intervention

Keywords

• mental health
• intervention
• gambling
• addiction
• family support
• crisis
• treatment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Finding New Waters, casino management

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