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A Review of the Effectiveness of Assertiveness Training in the Treatment of Alcohol Abusers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Donnie W. Watson  and
Stephen A. Maisto
Donnie W. Watson
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee 37240. U.S.A.
Stephen A. Maisto
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee 37240. U.S.A.
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Assertiveness skills training is frequently a component of current behavioral treatments of alcohol abuse. Although the results of several uncontrolled and controlled evaluations generally suggest the efficacy of using assertiveness training, methodological problems in this research prevent firm conclusions. Thus, before conditions under which assertive skills training with alcohol abusers are most effective can be delineated, additional evaluation correcting these problems is needed.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 36 - 49
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1983

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