title: Professional interventions that facilitate 12-step self-help group involvement.
abstract: Facilitating patients' involvement with 12-step self-help organizations, such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA), is often a goal of substance abuse treatment. Twelve-step-facilitation (TSF) interventions have been found to be more effective than comparison treatments in increasing patients' 12-step group involvement and in promoting abstinence. Future TSF evaluation research should address the effectiveness of incorporating TSF interventions with cognitive-behavioral treatment methods, the relative impact of brief versus extended TSF interventions, and the cost-effectiveness and health care cost-offset of TSF interventions within managed health care systems.
authors.affiliation: Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, CA, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Humphreys
mesh_terms: D000436:Alcoholics Anonymous; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations