PSYC 3690 Chapter Notes -Contingency Management
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Title: changing network support for drinking: initial findings from the network support project. The aim of this study was to determine whether a socially focused treatment can effect change in the patent s social network from one that reinforces drinking to one that reinforces sobriety. 3 treatment conditions: network support (ns), network support + contingency management (ns + cm) or case management (casem, control) Results indicate that the ns conditions did not reduce social support for drinking relative to the casem condition but did increase behavioural and attitudinal support for abstinence as well as alcoholics anonymous (aa) involvement. These ndings indicate that drinkers social networks can be changed by a treatment that is speci cally designed to do so, and that these changes contribute to improved drinking outcomes. Network support for drinking (the degree to which people in the home environment encourage drinking) has been found to be predictive of poor outcomes in treatment.