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Posted on May 23, 2013 at 11:14 pm by Lakeside

Benefits of Alcoholics Anonymous
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Benefits of Alcoholics
Anonymous attendance:
Replication of findings
between clinical research
sites in Project MATCH. We
compared findings on the
benefits associated with
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
attendance across eleven
clinical sites in Project
MATCH. 1,726 clients were
recruited for the study.
Results found that the
largest benefit associated
with AA attendance was
increased abstinence,
followed by reductions in
alcohol-related
consequences. The
magnitude of these
benefits did not differ
between sites. A positive
association was also found
between AA attendance
and increased purpose in
life, but the size of this
relationship was very small
and was statistically
significant only after
controlling for
measurement error.
Several explanations are
offered to reconcile
findings in this

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Posted on May 9, 2013 at 9:24 pm by Lakeside

Popular Articles
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Posted on April 26, 2013 at 6:56 pm by Lakeside

More 12-Step meetings predict abstinence
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More 12-Step meetings
predict abstinence A
NATURALISTIC
COMPARISON OF
OUTCOMES AT SOCIAL
AND CLINICAL MODEL
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
TREATMENT PROGRAMS.
Abstract: Since the 1970s,
much of the public
treatment system in
California has been based
on a social model
orientation to recovery for
alcoholics, but there has
been minimal research on
program outcomes. This
article reports on follow-up
interviews conducted with
a representative sample of
722 people who had
entered treatment about a
year earlier in public and
private programs, including
publicly-funded social
model detoxification and
residential programs, and
clinical model programs in
hospitals and HMO clinics.
Social model clients came to
treatment with more
severe legal and
employment problems,
whereas those seeking
treatment

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Posted on April 19, 2013 at 5:42 pm by Lakeside

AA and the disease concept of alcoholism
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AA and the disease
concept of alcoholism
Although the idea of
“illness” helped many early
and later members of
Alcoholics Anonymous
(A.A.) to understand their
alcoholism, Alcoholics
Anonymous neither
originated nor promulgated
the disease concept of
alcoholism. The main
contribution of A.A. in this
area was the broadening
of the extant concept to
one of ” threefold” malady
[Spiritual, mental and
physical], with an emphasis
on “the spiritual.”
Examining the political and
medical contexts of the
time as well as A.A.
literature shed light on the
culture’;s changing
understanding of
alcoholism in the second
half of the twentieth
century. Given the issues
and prejudices involved, it
is

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Posted on April 8, 2013 at 3:21 pm by

Self-help reduces costs and promotes sobriety
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12-Step Involvement Increases Sobriety and Reduces Costs BACKGROUND: Accumulating evidence indicates that addiction and psychiatric treatment programs that actively promote self-help group involvement can reduce their patients’ health care costs in the first year after treatment, but such initially impressive effects may wane over time. This paper examines whether the positive clinical outcomes and reduced …∞

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Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:48 pm by Lakeside

Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF) Reduces Substance Abuse
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Changes in self-efficacy and Twelve Step Affiliation were associated with improvement in substance use outcomes at the end of treatment.

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Posted on March 1, 2013 at 8:41 am by Lakeside

A Referral Resource for Therapists
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  Self-help groups: A referral resource for professional therapists This article discusses the nature, structure, limitations, and potential of self-help organizations.  The effective utilization of self-help organizations requires the referring therapist’s awareness of the goals, methods, and services provided by the group and evaluation of the unique needs of potential group members. The value of …∞

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Posted on February 27, 2013 at 8:27 am by Lakeside

Alcoholics Anonymous Affiliation During Early Recovery
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This study analyzed the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) participation of 55 patients during the 3 months after their discharge from structured treatment, when dropout is high. Three levels of meeting attendance were discerned: low, mid-level, and “90 meetings in 90 days.” Of greatest interest, the mid-level group showed mixed interest in AA practices despite substantial meeting …∞

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Posted on February 21, 2013 at 7:08 am by Lakeside

TSF Works
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Professional Interventions
That Facilitate 12-Step
Self-Help Group
Involvement Facilitating
patients’; involvement with
12-step self-help
organizations, such as
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
and Narcotics Anonymous
(NA), is often a goal of
substance abuse
treatment. Twelve-step-
facilitation (TSF)
interventions have been
found to be more effective
than comparison
treatments in increasing
patients’; 12-step group
involvement and in
promoting abstinence.
Recent Evaluations of TSF
Interventions One large
study, known as Project
MATCH, compared a TSF
intervention with cognitive-
behavioral (CB) therapy
and motivational
enhancement therapy
(MET) among 1,726
patients (76 percent male)
diagnosed with either
alcohol abuse or
dependence, including 774
inpatients who were
beginning outpatient
aftercare and 952 patients
receiving outpatient care
as their primary treatment

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Posted on February 10, 2013 at 5:09 am by Lakeside

Alcoholics Anonymous
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Alcoholics Anonymous Of
all the treatments for
alcohol misuse, Alcoholics
Anonymous (AA) is
probably the most well
known. In AA, a form of
“self-help” treatment,
participants take part in a
series of mental, written
and verbal activities that
can lead to recovery and
abstinence. In one study,
alcoholic patients who
received inpatient and
outpatient psychotherapy,
as well as AA, had better
outcomes than those
patients who attended only
one kind of treatment. It is
thought that AA helps
people because it provides
a new social network that
replaces the alcohol
abuser’;s usual group of
friends who drink with him
or her, and provides a
fellowship that inspires
motivation and

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