Brief Intervention Methods

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Brief Intervention as a Method to Treat Adult Alcoholism Wendy C. Avina Buena Vista University Introduction The purpose of this research is to add to the knowledge that brief intervention methods, especially motivational interviewing, help adults reduce alcohol consumption. There are quite a few methods out there for treating alcoholism for adults such as in-patient treatment, out-patient treatment, web-based counseling, sober living, Alcoholics Anonymous, and the do it yourself method. Brief intervention methods such as motivational interviewing have now been explored to help adults reduce their drinking, cut back on costs, and save time. There have been previous studies that have proven motivational interviewing to be an…show more content…
They have been able to incorporate with other treatment methods to be able to help alcoholics stay sober. A meta-analysis combines other research to assess a health care intervention. Another research project compares group therapy lasting two weeks to three sessions of individual counseling. There is a study that incorporates in home detoxification with the brief intervention. One study takes patients from the psychiatric unit and performs the intervention on the unit. Another study provides brief interventions to college students. Another study helps college students online. Another study is a longitudinal study done for college…show more content…
Brief intervention methods have been proven effective although the effects do no last over ten year time span. Forty to sixty minute sessions delivered in hospitals proves more effective than no intervention at all. Other studies have shown that this has proven effective in rising abstinence. Motivational interviewing approach showed the most effect. Project Match study showed effectiveness of motivational interviewing (John, Veltrup, Driessen, Wetterling, & Dilling, 2003). There are two hypothesizes in this study. The first one is that participants in the motivational interviewing group do not do better than the participants in the group counseling group after the six month treatment period. The second one is that group therapy does not outperform motivational interviewing six months after treatment (John, Veltrup, Driessen, Wetterling, & Dilling, 2003). Participants were found at inpatient treatment in the psychiatric university hospital, alcohol dependent, home dependent within the last six months, twenty-one to sixty-five years old, located within reach of outpatient services after treatment, consenting to take part in a twenty-one day treatment program, no organic brain damage, no psychosis, and no more than ten previous inpatient stays (John, Veltrup,

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