Individualized assessment and treatment program for alcohol dependence: results of an initial study to train coping skills.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Cognitive-behavioral treatments (CBT) are among the most popular interventions offered for alcohol and other substance use disorders, but it is not clear how they achieve their effects. CBT is purported to exert its beneficial effects by altering coping skills, but data supporting coping changes as the mechanism of action are mixed. The purpose of this pilot study was to test a treatment in which coping skills were trained in a highly individualized way, allowing us to determine if such training would result in an effective treatment.

Design

Participants were assigned randomly to a comprehensive packaged CBT program (PCBT), or to an individualized assessment and treatment program (IATP). The IATP program employed experience sampling via cellphone to assess coping skills

SUBMITTER: Litt MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2763044 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature