title: Toward a rapprochement of empirical and clinical injury in evaluation of psychologically oriented alcoholism treatment.
abstract: The need to synthesize clinical and empirical considerations in naturalistic studies of psychologically oriented alcoholism treatment is discussed. Well done naturalistic studies are viewed as a necessary complement to more traditional controlled studies of treatment in order to maintain an interface of clinicall reality with scientific respectability. A general clinical framework and scientific model for naturalistic study are proposed by which scientific and clinical considerations may be reconciled.
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000628:therapy*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D010361:Patients; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012107:Research Design