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- Title
DIMENSIONS OF SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND POSTTREATMENT ALCOHOL USE IN FULLY AND IN PARTLY RECOVERED ALCOHOLICS.
- Authors
Cernovsky, Zdenek
- Abstract
The article cites a study which compared the alcoholics who were abstinent during a 1-year follow-up with those who were not fully abstinent. Under the study, 46 chronic alcoholics who underwent a 4-week residential treatment in the Saint Thomas Psychiatric Hospital between June 1978-June 1979, were contacted 1 year after discharge from treatment. They do not represent the alcoholics treated in this hospital because the patients who were geographically and time economically unavailable for a personal contact or who did not volunteer to answer the items of the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) as well as those who engaged in heavy drinking after their discharge from treatment were not included in the sample under investigation. One year after discharge from hospital treatment, the patients were administered the POI and were interviewed extensively about their alcohol use after treatment. The final assessment of the level of alcohol use during the follow-up year was based both on information from the patients and on information from other sources including the AA grapevine, employer, and family members.
- Subjects
TEMPERANCE; ALCOHOLISM; PEOPLE with alcoholism; PERSONAL orientation inventory; PSYCHIATRIC hospitals; ALCOHOLISM treatment; CONTROLLED drinking; PERSONALITY tests; SELF-actualization (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1983, Vol 39, Issue 4, p628
- ISSN
0021-9762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/1097-4679(198307)39:4<628::AID-JCLP2270390431>3.0.CO;2-U