Supportive-Expressive Psychodynamic Therapy for Cocaine Dependence: A Closer Look.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Crits-Christoph, Paul Gibbons, Mary Beth Connolly Gallop, Robert Ring-Kurtz, Sarah Barber, Jacques P. Worley, Matthew I. Hearon, Bridget A.
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Using data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study, this article focuses on the outcomes of patients who received supportive-expressive (SE) psychodynamically-oriented psychotherapy (plus group drug counseling; GDC). Short-term SE for cocaine dependent individuals, while not the most efficacious treatment examined in the study (individual drug counseling [IDC] plus GDC was), produced large improvements in cocaine use. In addition, there was evidence that SE was superior to IDC on change in family/social problems at the 12 month follow-up assessment, particularly for those patients with relatively more severe difficulties in this domain at baseline. For patients who achieved abstinence early in treatment, SE produced comparable drug use outcomes to IDC, with mean drug use scores numerically lower for SE at all of the follow-up assessments (9, 12, 15, and 18 months). SE patients who achieved initial abstinence decreased cocaine use from a mean 10.1 days per month at baseline to a mean of 1.3 days at 12 months.
Starting Page	483
Ending Page	498
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1037/0736-9735.25.3.483
PubMed reference number	19960117
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	25
Issue Number	3
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.coping.us/images/Crits-Christoph_et_al_2008_Support_Exp_Psych_therapy.pdf
Journal	Psychoanalytic psychology : the official journal of the Division of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association, Division 39
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article