Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Managing Coerced Alcohol Treatment
Submitted by Mike Ashton
- 14 June 2017

Key studies on the role of management in the treatment of problem drinking in criminal justice settings and/or to safeguard the community. Just as for practitioners, for managers the challenge is to extract therapeutic benefit out of a coercive, punishment-oriented context. Discusses a rare trial of the influential ‘risk-need-responsivity’ model, asks whether cognitive-behavioural approaches are the way to go, and identifies possibly the most difficult management task in the addictions. Read more...