Stage of change and decisional balance for women seeking alcohol treatment

Article Abstract:

Stage of change and decisional balance are used to understand motivation for changes in health behavior. The relationships between these constructs in a sample of 119 alcohol dependent women presenting for alcohol treatment are examined. The results proved that individuals who exhibited greater readiness to change perceived more advantages and fewer disadvantages of changing their drinking behavior.

Behavior, Alcoholics

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Alcoholism treatment outcome studies, 1970-2998: an expanded look at the nature of the research

Article Abstract:

Various alcohol treatment outcome studies reported between 1970 and 1998 are reviewed helping researchers to characterize this field of study, analyze trends over time, and improve work on the same in future. As alcohol treatment research includes societal issues, changes in these also lead to changes in treatment research.

Patient outcomes

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Reinforcement expectancies for studying predict drinking problems among college students: approaching problem drinking from an expectancies choice perspective

Article Abstract:

Variability in drinking problems increases with the level of alcohol expectancies. Additional avenues to reduce drinking problem can be had by understanding molecular links between expectancy and behavior in the context of experiences.

Addiction

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