Effective and Inexpensive Procedures for Decreasing Client Attrition in an Outpatient Alcohol Treatment Program
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
- Vol. 7 (1) , 73-82
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00952998009028412
Abstract
Dropout rates in alcohol treatment programs are typically quite high. Three studies with outpatient alcohol abusers investigated several different follow-through procedures designed to increase the return rate of clients who prematurely drop out of treatment. Subjects were also asked why they had abruptly left treatment. Inexpensive letter and telephone follow-through procedures were found to be effective at reducing early client attrition and at providing valuable information about the fate of dropouts.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
- Multiple Predictors of Dropout From Alcoholism TreatmentArchives of General Psychiatry, 1978
- Relationship of depression, sociopathy, and locus of control to treatment outcome in alcoholics.Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
- Schizophrenics in the New Custodial Community: Five Years After the ExperimentAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1975
- CORRELATES OF PATIENT ATTRITION IN THE OUTPATIENT TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLISMJournal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 1973
- Predictors of Premature Termination of Outpatient-Followup Group Psychotherapy Among Male AlcoholicsInternational Journal of the Addictions, 1970
- Some Personality Considerations of an Alcoholic PopulationPerceptual and Motor Skills, 1968
- Use of Letters to Increase Motivation for Treatment in AlcoholicsPsychological Reports, 1965
- ESTABLISHING TREATMENT RELATIONS WITH ALCOHOLICSJournal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 1962