Coping Skills Training

Most applications of CBT for alcohol dependence include coping skills training. Coping skills training assumes that developing effective coping skills can help individuals deal with situations that may lead to drinking. Coping skills training provides alternative strategies to cope with these situations, including social skills that teach patients to deal with interpersonal stress without drinking. 

Examples of coping skills training include communication skills, listening techniques, assertiveness, problem solving, drinking refusal skills, coping with urges to drink, relaxation, anger management and stress management skills training.  

Coping skills training is one of the best-established and empirically supported interventions.