Treatment of heroin addicts: is the client--therapist relationship important?
The purpose of this paper is to examine one variable in the treatment of heroin addiction, ther therapist-client relationship. Eighty-six individuals who were discharged from the Tulane NARA Drug Abuse Program were examined on 20 social and personality variables. The variable of the counselor--patient relationship was found important in the final outcome of treatment. Clients who had a single counselor throughout the entire course of treatment did significantly better (p less than .002) than their peers who were transferred from one counselor to another, suggesting that a stable client--therapist relationship greatly enhances the chances of the patient reaching drug abstinence and being rehabilitated.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008145:Louisiana; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors