Download Author: Sobell, Linda C. Ph.D. ABPP

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Case Examples

  • Case 1: Heavy Drinking Related Primarily to Negative Affective States
  • Case 2: Heavy Drinking Related Primarily to Positive Affective States and Social Pressure Situations
  • Case 3: Heavy Drinking Related Primarily to Positive Affective States
  • Case 4: Heavy Drinking Related to Testing Personal Control
  • Case 5: Heavy Drinking Across Most Situations

Outcomes and Afterthoughts

  • The Topography of Outcomes
  • Client Perceptions of Guided Self-Management
  • Therapist Perceptions of Guided Self-Management
  • Therapists’ Impressions
  • On Implementing Guided Self-Management Treatment in Clinical Practice

Treatment of Problem Drinkers

  • Concordance of Advances in the Alcohol Field and in Behavior Therapy
  • Treatments for Problem Drinkers: Issues
  • Treatments for Problem Drinkers: Evaluations

A Self-Management Approach to Treating Problem Drinkers

  • Development of a Treatment Tailored to Problem Drinkers
  • Nonintensive Treatment
  • Motivational Interventions
  • Selection of Treatment Goals
  • Cognitive Relapse Prevention in Guided Self-Management Treatment
  • Evaluations of Relapse Prevention
  • Summary and Integration

Assessment: A Running Start

  • Entering Self-Management Treatment
  • Assessment as a Therapeutic Process
  • Selected Assessment Tools and Procedures

Treatment Procedures: Preparation, Goal Setting, Monitoring Drinking

  • The Need for Flexibility
  • Preparing for Treatment Sessions: The Client’s Obligations
  • Preparing for Treatment Sessions: The Therapist’s Obligations
  • Starting the First Session: Setting the Tone
  • Goal Setting
  • Alcohol Education
  • Making the Point about Tolerance
  • Discussing the Goal Statement with the Client
  • Filling Out the Goal Statement
  • Self-Monitoring

Treatment Procedures: Readings and Conceptual Framework

The use of readings in guided self-management treatment serves multiple functions:

· They communicate the treatment approach in an understandable and consistent way.

· They provide a framework that clients can use to evaluate and change their own behavior.

· They are constantly available to the client.

· Providing clients with the first reading at assessment helps to capitalize upon the self-change momentum that started when the client called for an appointment.

· The readings and the associated homework provide the “running start” for treatment

· The readings provide background information so that the session time can be spent on assessing the client’s understanding of the treatment approach rather than explaining the approach.

· Compliance with the readings and homework can indicate the client’s commitment to making serious efforts to change.