Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Row 4: The Talking Route to Recovery
Submitted by Mike Ashton
- 3 May 2017
The Talking Route to Recovery
Time to consolidate the lessons of last five instalments of the online course on alcohol treatment research. Every treatment involves direct or indirect human interaction, but this row is about therapies in which interaction is intended to be the main active ingredient. Psychosocial or ‘talking’ therapies are the mainstay of alcohol dependence treatment. If they are suboptimal or misunderstood, we risk the bulk of patients doing less well than they could.
