Out-Patient Treatment of Alcoholism : A Study of Outcome and Its Determinants / Donald L. Gerard, Gerhart Saenger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerard, Donald L., Author.

Saenger, Gerhart, Author.

Series:

Brookside monograph ; Number 4.

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alcoholism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book reports the findings of a study of the treatment of alcoholism in the out-patient clinics and the related in-patient facilities of state-supported alcoholism programmes in the United States. The authors compared a number of clinics simultaneously, and were thus able to investigate the influence of a variety of treatment programmes on a variety of patients. They show that clinics play a valuable role in assisting patients who have retained social stability despite their problem by maintaining contact with such patients, but that they are rarely useful for modifying either drinking habits or other aspects of malfunctioning in the case of patients whose social stability has crumbled. The study further shows that improvement in drinking habits (either by abstinence or by controlled drinking) is related to what the clinic does and to changes in the patient's social and interpersonal environment outside the clinic.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword / Archibald, H. David

Preface

Contents

List of Tables

I. The Design of the Study

II. The Research Setting: Alcoholism Clinics

III. Characteristics of Clinic Patients at Intake

IV. The Nature of Clinic Treatment

V. Change and the Problem of Improvement

VI. Predictors of Improvement

VII. Qualitative Analysis of Cases

VIII. Summary and Discussion

Appendix: Research Instruments and Manuals for Personnel of Alcoholism Services Participating in the NYU-NAAAP Follow-Up Study

References

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9781487597474

1487597479

9781487595760

148759576X

OCLC:

1091697373