Joint admission as a treatment modality for problem drinkers: a case report.
Joint hospital admission of a married alcoholic and his/her spouse can facilitate treatment of the problem drinker. A case report illustrates the advantages of this approach in giving the staff an opportunity to observe and provide the couple with feedback about their patterns of interaction and to provide specific therapeutic interventions during the joint admission.
D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000628:therapy*; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D014481:United States