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Social Support and Prevention of Relapse Following Treatment for Alcohol Abuse

James G. Barber

Flinders University of South Australia

Beth R. Crisp

Flinders University of South Australia

All 30 clients who received standard inpatient treatment for alcohol abuse during 1992-93 in the north Tasmanian health region were randomly assigned to an additional social support intervention, to a self monitoring control intervention, or to a no-additional-treatment control group. Results indicated that artificially created social support was ineffective in influencing consumption beyond what was produced by a combination of standard outpatient follow-up and simple self-monitoring. However, the degree of social support available from the most supportive individual in the drinker's naturally occurring social network was the preeminent predictor of drinking over a 3-month interval. Contrary to the predictions of one cognitive-behavioral approach to relapse prevention, pretreatment measures of client self-efficacy were not associated with drinking at posttreatment.

Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 5, No. 3, 283-296 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/104973159500500302
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