Attempting to match clients to an alcoholism treatment program based on "fit" with personal characteristics results in:
a. significantly more successful outcomes when matching high spirituality with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
b. males doing best in 12-step programs and women doing best in cognitive behavioral therapy
c. unmotivated clients responding best to reality confrontation in motivational enhancement programs
d. no significant differences in effectiveness among the programs
D
Attempting to match clients to an alcoholism treatment program based on "fit" with personal characteristics results in no significant differences in effectiveness among the programs. In the 1998 MATCH study, none of the factors evaluated at entry (including gender, cognitive impairment, spirituality, motivation, social network support, level of anger, interpersonal dependency, prior AA involvement, social functioning, personality disorder or other psychiatric disorder, readiness to change) strongly predicted success in any of the three treatments used in the study.
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