How Are the Cognitive-Behavioural and the AA 12-Step Approach to the Treatment

question 24

Multiple Choice

How are the cognitive-behavioural and the AA 12-step approach to the treatment of alcohol abuse different?

• A) Cognitive-behavioural approaches emphasize skills to control addiction rather than always requiring complete abstinence.
• B) Twelve-step programs reject the disease or medical model of addiction.
• C) Cognitive-behavioural approaches lack the empirical support that AA programs have established.
• D) There is no fundamental difference other than the 12-step program belief that only a Higher Power can cure the person.

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