Treatment Matching in Alcoholism

by Edited by Thomas F. Babor , Frances K. Del Boca

• ISBN13: 9780521177269
• ISBN10: 052117726X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-07
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Project MATCH was a large-scale treatment evaluation study established by the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse to determine whether the treatment of alcoholism could be improved by matching different types of alcoholics with the most appropriate kinds of treatment. This book, edited by the two principal investigators, is the first comprehensive report of Project MATCH, the largest alcoholism treatment study ever conducted. It describes the rationale, methods, results and implications of the study, and presents new findings about how treatment works, for whom it is most effective, and who does best in different kinds of treatment. It also offers some of the first scientific evidence of the effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous^DCO.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Note from series editor

Preface

Design and Implementation:

Matching alcoholism treatment to client heterogeneity: the genesis of project MATCH

Planning a multisite matching trial: organizational structure and research design

Clinical assessment: measuring matching characteristics and treatment outcomes

Therapies for matching: selection, development, implementation, and costs

Client characteristics and implementation of the research protocol

Findings:

The matching hypotheses: rationale and predictions

Primary treatment outcomes and matching effects: outpatient arm

Primary treatment outcomes and matching effects: aftercare arm

Treatment effects across multiple dimensions of outcome

A look inside treatment: therapist effects, the therapeutic alliance, and the process of intentional behavior change

Participation and involvement in Alcoholics Anonymous

Conclusions and Implications:

Summary and conclusions

Clinical and scientific implications of project MATCH

Appendix

References

Index

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