Motivation for Drinkers and Treatment Outcome: A Study of Personal and Nonpersonal Effects Drinkers

1 January 1984

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Vol. 10 (1) , 113-124
https://doi.org/10.3109/00952998409002659

Abstract

Personal effects drinkers seem more likely than nonpersonal effects drinkers to benefit from an alcoholism treatment program emphasizing abstinence and self-actualization.

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