Describe and compare alcoholics anonymous (as a 12-step program) and cognitive-behavioral therapies for treating alcohol addiction.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: AA is a 12-step program that provides extensive social support to encourage drinking abstinence for anonymous members. The goal is complete abstention from alcohol use. Cognitive-behavioral therapies for alcohol dependence seek to improve an individual’s cognitive and behavioral skills toward changing problem alcohol use. This approach views alcohol dependence as a maladaptive learning pattern that can be adjusted by replacing maladaptive responses with adaptive responses. By addressing alcohol use as maladaptive behavior, complete cessation of alcohol use is not the ultimate therapeutic goal per se. Rather, therapists seek to eliminate the problems associated with alcohol use, which may or may not require abstinence.
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