TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Partner violence before and after individually based alcoholism treatment for male alcoholic patients
JO  - Journal of consulting and clinical psychology
A1  - O'Farrell, Timothy J.
A1  - Fals-Stewart, William
A1  - Murphy, Marie
A1  - Murphy, Christopher M.
SP  - 92
EP  - 102
VL  - 71
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-006X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -