Journal of Studies on Alcohol articles from July 1998

Journal of Studies on Alcohol archives from July 1998

Couples relapse prevention sessions after behavioral marital therapy for male alcoholics: outcomes during the three years after starting treatment.
July 1, 1998... Marital and family therapy (MFT) are generally considered as effective means to promote alcoholism recovery by reviews of outcome research (e.g., Holder et al., 1991; Miller et al., 1995) and by texts for practitioners (e.g., Gallant, 1987;...

Evaluating substance abuse treatment process models: I. changes on proximal outcome variables during 12-step and cognitive-behavioral treatment.
July 1, 1998... Substance abuse treatment is assumed to set in motion a therapeutic process chain that, although varying in the nature of the linkages for different modalities, connects a patient's entering treatment to a positive outcome (e.g., abstinence or...

Reflecting adult drinking culture: prevalence of alcohol use and drinking situations among Japanese junior high school students in Japan.
July 1, 1998... Adult drinking in Japan is considered a societal norm, particularly among men. There is even a saying in Japan that "alcohol is the lubricating oil for society." At home, drinking alcohol after bathing is part of the traditional way of life...

Paternal alcoholism, paternal absence and the development of problem behaviors in boys from age six to twelve years.
July 1, 1998... Parental alcoholism has been associated repeatedly with an elevated risk of negative outcomes in the offspring (Chassin et al., 1991; Reich et al., 1993; Sher, 1991; West and Prinz, 1987). Sons of male alcoholics (SOMAs), in particular, are...

Latent variable modeling of longitudinal and multilevel alcohol use data.
July 1, 1998... Over the last three decades, we have witnessed a gradual increase in the complexity of theoretical models that attempt to explain problem behavior, such as alcohol use and abuse in children and adolescents. There has been marked movement away...

Alcohol outcome expectancies, attitudes toward drinking and theory of planned behavior.
July 1, 1998... Since the pioneering work of Brown et al. (1980), evidence has accumulated that alcohol outcome expectancies play an important role in the acquisition and maintenance of differential alcohol consumption patterns. For example, alcohol outcome...

Differences in performance of screening instruments for problem drinking among blacks, whites and Hispanics in an emergency room population.
July 1, 1998... Studies conducted among representative samples of those treated in hospital emergency rooms (ERs) have found relatively high rates of frequent heavy and problem drinking among both injured and noninjured patients (Cherpitel, 1993b). While a...

Psychometric evaluation of the customary drinking and drug use record (CDDR): a measure of adolescent alcohol and drug involvement.
July 1, 1998... Assessment of adolescent alcohol and other drug abuse and dependence is a complex task, hampered by limited knowledge regarding unique features of adolescent substance abuse and by rapid developmental changes that may influence the clinical...

Screening college students for alcohol problems: psychometric assessment of the SASSI-2 (Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory)
July 1, 1998... Recent studies of alcohol use on college campuses in the United States have found that heavy drinking is a common phenomenon. Estimates of problem drinking by American college students range from 19% to 52%, depending on the criteria used to...

Levels and patterns of alcohol consumption using timeline follow-back, daily diaries and real-time "electronic interviews."
July 1, 1998... The accuracy with which people recall their alcohol consumption is critical to our understanding of the causes, correlates and consequences of alcohol use, abuse and dependence (Babor et al., 1987, 1990). Although individuals tend to...

Time series analysis of alcohol consumption and suicide mortality in the United States, 1934-1987.
July 1, 1998... The association between alcohol use and suicide has been well documented in many countries, and numerous studies in the United States have demonstrated an association between alcohol consumption and suicide among alcoholics, alcohol abusers...

Costs and benefits of a community sobriety checkpoint program.
July 1, 1998... MOTOR VEHICLE crashes are the leading cause of fatal injury and the second-leading cause of nonfatal injury in the U.S. (Rice et al., 1989). Young adults 15 to 24 years old are particularly at risk for motor-vehicle-related injury (Rice et...

The origins and evolution of the disease concept of treatment.
July 1, 1998... The disease concept of treatment (DCT) has been the dominant treatment model for alcoholism in the United States for the last 30 years (Hester and Miller, 1995; Institute of Medicine, 1990; Roman and Blum, 1991), however, remarkably little has...