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Peer reviewedStead, Peter; Viders, Judith – Social Work, 1979
SHARP is a hospital-based, self-help program for treating alcoholic veterans, which involves them in assuming major roles in governing the program and in helping one another. Because follow-up support is essential to maintaining sobriety, SHARP created an active social support system in the community. (Author)
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Counseling Services, Drinking, Followup Studies
Peer reviewedCurry, Susan J.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1995
Evaluates the incremental effects of the use of a self-help booklet, computer-generated personalized feedback, and outreach telephone counseling in a population-based, nonvolunteer sample of smokers. Smoking status was ascertained 3, 12 and 21 months postrandomization. Overall, the telephone counseling significantly increased smoking cessation at…
Descriptors: Adults, Counseling, Counseling Services, Feedback
Peer reviewedTurner, David N.; Saunders, Danny – Small Group Research: An International Journal of Theory, Investigation, and Application, 1990
Observed 2 Gamblers Anonymous (GA) groups in South Wales over a 12-month period. Determined 2 broad consequences arose from encountering fellow sufferers: acceptance of diagnosis and commitment to recovery and to will of GA, or rejection of the diagnosis with the knowledge that they are returning to the outside world with a reconstituted…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Foreign Countries, Group Counseling, Group Therapy
