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STUDY 2002 PDF file 172Kb
Group cognitive-behavioural therapy can work well and save money
Brazilian clinic found that for both drinkers and drug users, cognitive-behavioural therapy worked as well in a group as an individual format with potential cost-savings. Extended text documents similar studies.
STUDY 2004 PDF file 87Kb
First British study to tackle excessive drinking by methadone patients
English clinic challenged assumptions by patients and staff that excessive drinking was not a priority for patients dependent on opiates. A short programme of motivational interviewing, plus detox when needed, led many to curb their drinking.
STUDY 2008 HTM file
Network support for drinking: an application of multiple groups growth mixture modeling to examine client-treatment matching
Reanalysis of the huge US Project MATCH alcohol treatment trial confirms that patients with pro-drinking social circles gained greater remission in drink problems when 'matched' to a therapy focused on generating a social circle (in the form of AA) with the opposite characteristics.
META-ANALYSIS 2008 HTM file
Distinctions without a difference: direct comparisons of psychotherapies for alcohol use disorders
After combining results from studies comparing talking therapies for alcohol problems, this ingenious analysis finds any structured approach grounded in an explicit model as good as any other. Researchers have, it's argued, been looking in the wrong direction for therapy's active ingredients.
STUDY 2005 PDF file 175Kb
Match motivational interviews to the client
Motivational interviews are not universally beneficial or at worst neutral – sometimes they make things worse. In this US study they helped ambivalent patients make the most of their treatment but impeded the recovery of those already committed to change.
STUDY 2008 HTM file
Computer-assisted delivery of cognitive-behavioral therapy for addiction: a randomized trial of CBT4CBT
An interactive computer program may offer a way to overcome the shortage of trained cognitive-behavioural therapists; supplementing routine counselling by program access twice a week reduced substance use by a third.
REVIEW 2010 HTM file
A meta-analysis of motivational interviewing: twenty-five years of empirical studies
Better than 'treatment as usual' but not than other specific therapies are the headlines from the most comprehensive synthesis of motivational interviewing studies to date. Along the way are insights in to the equivocal value of manuals and of feeding back assessment results to patients.
STUDY 2006 PDF file 164Kb
UK trial bolsters case for well-supervised alcohol therapy
This major British trial found that an alcohol dependence therapy designed to improve on short motivational approaches led to no greater benefits for patients or cost-savings for society. Instead the study has been used to argue that alcohol treatment overall saves money.
STUDY 2009 HTM file
Translating effective web-based self-help for problem drinking into the real world
Combining a randomised trial with a 'real-world' test, studies of the Dutch Drinking Less programme have gone further than any others to establish the beneficial impacts of web-based alcohol self-help interventions.
STUDY 2006 PDF file 114Kb
Self-help groups: transformation from helped to helper promotes recovery
Two US studies of drinkers and cocaine dependents respectively suggest that an identity transformation from someone capable only of receiving help to someone who makes a contribution by helping others is key to the impact of 12-step mutual groups.
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