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Addiction Medicine
Coping skills may aid women being physically abused by alcoholic partner
May 26th, 2005
Coping skills training may be useful for women who are physically abused by an alcoholic partner. In a study by State University of New York, Buffalo, researchers, "women (n=171), distressed from their partners' untreated alcoholism, received either coping skills training (CST), 12-step facilitation (TSF), or delayed treatment (DTC)." R.G. Rychtarik and N.B. McGillicuddy reported that "CST and TSF resulted in lower depression levels than DTC but did not differ from one another. Skill acquisition mediated the treatment effects of CST; Al-Anon attendance did not mediate the TSF effect." They also found that "lower depression levels...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-05-26)
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