Ferrell WL, Galassi JP. Assertion training and human relations training in the treatment of chronic alcoholics.
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE ADDICTIONS 1981;
16:959-68. [PMID:
7327778 DOI:
10.3109/10826088109038905]
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Abstract
The effects of milieu therapy plus assertion training were compared to those of milieu therapy plus human relations training in reducing drinking behavior and increasing interpersonal skills, of skill-deficient, chronic alcoholics in an alcoholic rehabilitation center. Although both treatments led to comparable sobriety rates at a 6-week follow-up, the treatment group which contained assertion training demonstrated significant gains in interpersonal skills as compared to the treatment group which contained human relations training. A 2-year sobriety significantly longer than the human relations training group.
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