Twelve Step Facilitation Therapy Manual

Nowinski J, Baker S, Carroll K Twelve-Step Facilitation Therapy Manual A Clinical Research Guide for Therapists Treating Individuals With Alcohol Abuse and Dependence. Project MATCH Monograph Series, Vol 1 (DHHS Publ No ADM-92-1893). Rockville, MD, National Instimte on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1992... 

Nowinski, J., Baker, S., Carroll, K. (1995). Twelve step facilitation therapy manual A clinical research guide for therapists treating individuals with alcohol abuse and dependence. In M. E. Mattson (Ed.), Project MATCH Monograph Series, 4. Bethesda, MD National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. 

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a self-help organization for people whose common goal is recovery from alcoholism, and it is the most widely accessed resource for individuals with alcohol problems (McCrady and Miller 1993). The philosophy is based on the concept of alcoholism as a chronic disease that cannot be cured, but one that can be halted by means of complete abstinence. AA has described 12 principles or steps to guide those in recovery. Twelve-step facilitation, a manual-based psychotherapy to promote AA participation (Nowinski et al. 1992), was equally efficacious, compared with cognitive-behavioral and motivational enhancement therapies, in a large study of treatments for alcohol dependence (Project Match Research Group, 1997). 

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