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Are Different Therapeutic Perspectives Important in the Treatment of Alcoholism?
Author(s) -
Cartwright A. K. J.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1981.tb03232.x
Subject(s) - psychotherapist , psychology , outcome (game theory) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , mathematical economics , mathematics
Summary From a comparison of the literature concerning treatment outcome in general psychotherapy and alcoholism it is argued that there are substantial similarities in predictive factors. It is suggested that therapist factors may be as important in the treatment of alcoholism as in general psychotherapy, and that future alcoholism treatment research ought to be designed in a way which would make it possible to evaluate this possibility.