TY - JOUR
T1 - Relapse precipitants and behavioral marital therapy
AU - Maisto, Stephen A.
AU - McKay, James R.
AU - O'farrell, Timothy J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Department of Veterans Affair\ and by grant R01 AA08637 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to the third author. Requestsf or reprints should be sent to Stephen A. Maisto. Ph.D.. Department of Psychology. Syrdcuse University, 430 Huntington Hall. Syracuse. NY 13244.
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - The major purpose of this study was to provide descriptive data on the first relapse episodes and reasons for terminating relapses of subjects who completed a course of behavioral marital therapy (BMT) for alcoholism. Another aim of the study was to compare the relapse episodes and relapse terminations of subjects who received BMT with or without additional relapse prevention (RP) treatment for one year. The subjects were selected from a sample of 74 men who began an outpatient Department of Veterans Affairs BMT program. These men were evaluated pre- and post-BMT, and at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after completing BMT. A total of 31 subjects relapsed at least once after they began BMT. The data showed that these men tended to report more than one situational or personal precipitant of their first relapses. Similarly, they tended to report more than one reason for ending their relapse episodes. Comparison of the subjects assigned to the two RP conditions revealed an equal number (12) of relapse episodes, but RP subjects' relapses tended to last fewer days than did no-RP subjects'. The consistency of these findings with previous research on cognitive-behavioral models of relapse and the implications of these findings for the concept of high-risk situation, are discussed.
AB - The major purpose of this study was to provide descriptive data on the first relapse episodes and reasons for terminating relapses of subjects who completed a course of behavioral marital therapy (BMT) for alcoholism. Another aim of the study was to compare the relapse episodes and relapse terminations of subjects who received BMT with or without additional relapse prevention (RP) treatment for one year. The subjects were selected from a sample of 74 men who began an outpatient Department of Veterans Affairs BMT program. These men were evaluated pre- and post-BMT, and at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after completing BMT. A total of 31 subjects relapsed at least once after they began BMT. The data showed that these men tended to report more than one situational or personal precipitant of their first relapses. Similarly, they tended to report more than one reason for ending their relapse episodes. Comparison of the subjects assigned to the two RP conditions revealed an equal number (12) of relapse episodes, but RP subjects' relapses tended to last fewer days than did no-RP subjects'. The consistency of these findings with previous research on cognitive-behavioral models of relapse and the implications of these findings for the concept of high-risk situation, are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/0306-4603(94)00079-E
DO - 10.1016/0306-4603(94)00079-E
M3 - Article
C2 - 7653319
AN - SCOPUS:0029000936
SN - 0306-4603
VL - 20
SP - 383
EP - 393
JO - Addictive Behaviors
JF - Addictive Behaviors
IS - 3
ER -