Dimensions of Change in the Improving Alcoholic

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Abstract
An inventory encompassing 6 social-psychological dimensions related to problem drinking (attitude toward drinking, environmental support for heavy drinking, impulsivity and nonconformity, alienation and maladjustment, looseness of social controls and unfavorable expectations) was used to determine what areas of behavior changed as an alcoholic improved. Three groups of social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists rated an alcoholic just hospitalized for treatment, an alcoholic just released from a hospital treatment program as improved, and an alcoholic who had been hospitalized for treatment, had improved, and had remained sober for 4 mo. Change occurred only in attitude toward drinking.

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