Treatment & Interventions
This section of the Guidelines overviews seven chapter focusing on the range of interventions and treatment options that can be provided for alcohol use and alcohol problems, including brief in-person interventions, withdrawal management, psychosocial interventions, pharmacotherapies, support groups and programs, and a new chapter on e-health interventions. Chapter 23, on relapse prevention, aftercare, and long-term follow-up, is also included in this section.
Chapter 6
Brief Interventions for Alcohol Use and Related-Problems
Authors | Leanne Hides & Catherine Quinn
This chapter provides a description of brief interventions and their role in addressing alcohol use and/or alcohol-related problems anddescribes the common components of brief interventions, alongside the current evidence-base for which populations and settings brief interventions are most effective
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Chapter 7
Brief e-Health Interventions for Alcohol Use and Related-Problems
Authors | Benjamin Riordan, John Cunningham & Frances Kay-Lambkin
This chapter provides a description of brief e-health interventions and their role in addressing alcohol use and related problems, including common components of e-health interventions and the current evidence base and provides references for current e-health interventions
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Chapter 8
Alcohol Withdrawal
Authors | Paul Haber & Nicholas Lintzeris
This chapter describes alcohol withdrawal and its clinical management, often occuring in people with longstanding high risk drinking who either stop or substantially decrease alcohol consumption
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Chapter 9
Psychosocial Interventions
Authors | Matthew Gullo & Jason Connor
This chapter describes, and provides the rationale for, the most widely used empirically supported psychosocial approaches employed to treat alcohol problems, alongside guidence on the choice of psychosocial treatment with recommendations for strategies that are expected to increase treatment effectiveness
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Chapter 10
Pharmacotherapies
Authors | Kirsten Morley, Susan Rombouts, Nazila Jamshidi & Paul Haber
This chapter provides a description of empirically supported pharmacological approaches for preventing relapse in alcohol dependence
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Chapter 11
Peer Support Programs
Authors | Victoria Manning, Michael Savic & Dan Lubman
This chapter provides a description of empirically supported pharmacological approaches for preventing relapse in alcohol dependence
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Chapter 23
Relapse Prevention, Aftercare, and Long-term Follow-up
Authors | Paul Haber
This chapter provides an overview of relapse prevention and strategies to long-term patient follow-up (aftercare programs), including approaches to working with alcohol-dependent patients who resume heavy alcohol use
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