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Intellectual assessment in a midwestern alcoholism treatment population
Author(s) -
Dietvorst Thomas F.,
Swenson Wendell M.,
Morse Robert M.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197801)34:1<244::aid-jclp2270340150>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - psychology , dismissal , socioeconomic status , wechsler adult intelligence scale , population , psychiatry , rehabilitation , clinical psychology , medicine , environmental health , cognition , neuroscience , political science , law
A study of 867 patients at a midwestern alcoholism treatment center which used Shipley‐Hartford Institute of Living Scale scores and WAIS scores indicates that intellectual differences in this population are due to age and socioeconomic differences rather than to alcoholism. However, these real differences can be used to plan dismissal and rehabilitation policies for individual patients.