After several months of weekly therapy sessions, a client tells her social worker that she believes she can drink responsibly and intends to do so on an upcoming vacation. The client has recently been discharged from a rehabilitation facility and has been diagnosed with alcohol dependence. The client admits that she has not attended AA nor talked with a sponsor. What should the social worker do NEXT?

a. Insist that the client join Alcoholics Anonymous
b. Confront the client's denial
c. Provide information on the relapse process
d. Contract with the client to abstain from alcohol


Ans: b. Confront the client's denial

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