Participation in Alcoholics Anonymous: Intended and Unintended Change Mechanisms

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Wiley InterScience

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volume 27 Issue 3, Pages 524 - 532

Published Online: 3 May 2006

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Participation in Alcoholics Anonymous: Intended and Unintended Change Mechanisms

Patricia L. Owen ¹ , Valerie Slaymaker ¹ , J. Scott Tonigan ² , Barbara S. McCrady ³ , Elizabeth E. Epstein ³ , Lee Ann Kaskutas ⁴ , Keith Humphreys ⁵ William R. Miller ²

¹ Butler Center for Research at the Hazelden Foundation, Center City, Minnesota ² University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico ³ Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey ⁴ Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, California ⁵ Department of Veterans Affairs Program Evaluation and Resource Center, Palo Alto, California.

Correspondence to Patricia Owen, Butler Center for Research at Hazelden, Box 11, Center City, MN, 55103; Fax: 651-213-4536; E-mail: powen@hazelden.org.

KEYWORDS

Alcoholics Anonymous • Treatment • Outcomes

ABSTRACT

This article is a compilation of the information presented at a symposium at the 2001 RSA Meeting in Montreal, Canada. The presentations were: (1) Maintaining change after conjoint behavioral alcohol treatment for men: the role of involvement with Alcoholics Anonymous, by Barbara S. McCrady and Elizabeth E. Epstein; (2) Changing AA practices and outcomes: Project MATCH 3-year follow-up, by J. Scott Tonigan; (3) Life events and patterns of recovery of AA-exposed adults and adolescents, by Patricia L. Owen and Valerie Slaymaker; (4) Social networks and AA involvement as mediators of change, by Lee Ann Kaskutas and Keith Humphreys; and (5) What do we know about Alcoholics Anonymous? by William R. Miller, discussant.

Received for publication July 1, 2002; accepted November 24, 2002.

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