Treatment of alcohol use disorder from a psychological point of view

• Published in: Rivista di psichiatria Vol. 53; no. 3; p. 141
• Main Authors: Coriale, Giovanna, Fiorentino, Daniela, De Rosa, Francesca, Solombrino, Simona, Scalese, Bruna, Ciccarelli, Rosaria, Attilia, Fabio, Vitali, Mario, Musetti, Alessia, Fiore, Marco, Ceccanti, Mauro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Italy 01.05.2018
• Subjects: Alcoholism - economics; Alcoholism - prevention & control; Alcoholism - psychology; Alcoholism - therapy; Clinical Trials as Topic; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Cost of Illness; Family Relations; Humans; Motivational Interviewing; Patient Compliance; Psychoanalysis; Psychotherapy - economics; Psychotherapy - methods; Psychotherapy, Brief; Psychotherapy, Group; Recurrence; Self-Control; Self-Help Groups; Social Skills; Therapeutic Community; Treatment Outcome
• ISSN: 2038-2502
• DOI: 10.1708/2925.29416

The development of a treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a crucial and complex moment. Indeed, the information gathered by a team of professionals (physicians, psychologists and social workers) (bio-psycho-social model of AUD) interact to choose the most appropriate cure. As for AUD psychological treatment, it is of considerable importance to avoid clinical treatments leading to drop-out for improving the patients quality of life. Psychoanalytic and behavioral techniques were early utilized as psychological treatment of AUD, however, evidence-based approaches as motivational interviewing (MI) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) are recently used in AUD. In this work we review the more effective and appropriate AUD psychological treatments.