Am J Psychiatry 1977; 134:261-266
Copyright © 1977 by American Psychiatric Association
Ten years of change in alcoholism treatment and delivery systems
EM Pattison
The author reviews the major advances in concepts and methods that have
been made in the treatment of alcoholism over the past decade but finds
little change in the everyday operation of treatment programs. He examines
the ideological differences between professionals and paraprofessionals in
the field, the changes in treatment goals that have been made, the
different types of alcoholic patients and their different needs and
responses to treatment, the uses and misuses of drug therapies, the
relatively unexamined values of psychotherapy, the recently successful
behavioral therapies, and treatment delivery systems and their evaluation.
