title: Current practice approaches for treating the alcoholic client.
abstract: This article identifies and assesses a range of practice approaches used by mental health practitioners to work with alcoholic clients and proposes a differential intervention approach to help social workers make appropriate individual treatment plans. The model includes relevant principles for working with alcoholic clients and lists factors that social workers should consider when selecting treatment approaches for alcoholics.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D005196:Family Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012737:Sex Factors; D012944:Social Support; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric