@article{ref1,
title="Partner violence before and after individually based alcoholism treatment for male alcoholic patients",
journal="Journal of consulting and clinical psychology",
year="2003",
author="O'Farrell, Timothy J. and Fals-Stewart, William and Murphy, Marie and Murphy, Christopher M.",
volume="71",
number="1",
pages="92-102",
abstract="This study examined partner violence in the year before and the year after individually based, outpatient alcoholism treatment for 301 married or cohabiting male alcoholic patients and used a demographically matched nonalcoholic comparison sample. In the year before treatment, 56% of the alcoholic patients had been violent toward their female partner, 4 times the rate of 14% in the comparison sample. In the year after treatment, violence decreased significantly to 25% of the alcoholic sample but remained higher than in the comparison group. Among remitted alcoholics after treatment, violence prevalence of 15% was nearly identical to the comparison sample and half the rate among relapsed patients (32%). Thus, partner violence decreased after alcoholism treatment, and clinically significant violence reductions occurred for patients whose alcoholism was remitted after treatment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-006X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}