A chronic alcoholic receives acupuncture treatments as adjunctive therapy to individual and group counseling. In two years, he remains alcohol-free. What statement could you make about this situation?
A. The rates of relapse are so great with alcohol addiction. Two
years of sobriety cannot be considered a success.
B. Individual and group counseling in combination yield more
effective results than one type of counseling alone.
C. The patient must have been highly motivated, because
acupuncture and counseling would not produce such results
without medication.
D. Acupuncture may produce naturally-occurring substances in the
body, such as beta-endorphins, that may help the alcoholic feel
good enough not to drink.
Question 2
A client who successfully detoxified from alcohol is ready to begin outpatient services. You suggest educational/psychoeducational resources, individual counseling, and group therapy in AA.
She insists
that therapy in a spiritually-oriented support group is not for her
because she is an atheist. What do you tell her first?
A. She does not need to attend any form of therapy that makes her
uncomfortable.
B. Some atheists and agnostics have successfully recovered
through AA, and she might, too, or she might try SMART
instead.
C. You would not have suggested group therapy in AA if you did not
think it would help her. She needs to try it.
D. As an atheist, she should not attend a spiritually oriented
mutual-help support group.
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