Therapy Strategies, Personality Orientation and Recovery from Alcoholism
- 1 February 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal
- Vol. 19 (1) , 25-30
- https://doi.org/10.1177/070674377401900106
Abstract
The Conceptual Level (CL) matching model which previously predicted the immediate response of alcoholics to group psychotherapy was tested in a follow-up study of drinking behaviour. Seventy percent of patients matched to their therapist in terms of CL were found to have stopped drinking a year after treatment. By comparison, only 50 percent of the mismatched patients had stopped. Furthermore, after-care matching was related to recovery: matched patients (high CL with out-of-town care and low CL with in-town care) showed a 71 percent recovery rate, while mismatched patients showed a 49 percent rate. The overall recovery rate was 61 percent for the 94 alcoholics studied.Keywords
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