| In treating alcohol dependence, different programs and | | | | on the "resocialization" of the alcoholic, which would |
| different approaches have been formulated to | | | | involve him using the "community," which means the |
| address drinking problems. Some of these treatments | | | | staff and other residents, in his efforts to re-integrate |
| include motivation enhancement therapy, | | | | himself in society. This is because the program uses |
| cognitive-behavioral therapy, and the12-step facilitation | | | | the residential setting as a means of re-establishing or |
| therapy. Each type of treatment has varied success | | | | developing a person's accountability or responsibility to |
| depending on the history of alcohol dependence of the | | | | others, which may have been diminished as a result of |
| person or the patient's personality. However, | | | | the person's alcoholism. |
| modifications of treatments, which may mean | | | | Apart from being able to develop accountability and a |
| combining some aspects of these different types of | | | | sense of responsibility, these programs also offer |
| treatment, can be done, and this is also applicable to | | | | other forms of rehabilitation. One of this includes |
| how these programs of treatment are delivered. One | | | | employment training, which would also help a person |
| of the aspects that have often been modified is the | | | | re-integrate himself to the outside world. Given the |
| duration of the rehabilitation program because some | | | | wide benefits that these programs provide, these |
| programs have been modified so that people's | | | | programs are usually undertaken by people with |
| rehabilitation are "fast-tracked" in cases wherein there | | | | long-term alcohol dependence, whose social skills may |
| is a need for the patient to be on his feet at the | | | | have greatly been diminished because of their |
| soonest possible time. | | | | alcoholism |
| Short-term residential treatment programs | | | | One recent modification of the 12-step therapy |
| An example of a "fast-tracked" rehabilitation program | | | | undergone by alcoholics is the short-term residential |
| is the short-term residential treatment program, which | | | | treatment program, which has proven to be effective |
| provides an intensive yet brief residential treatment | | | | especially for people with a long history of alcohol |
| based on a modified 12-step approach. These | | | | dependence. This is because the focus of these |
| programs only last for about four to twelve weeks but | | | | programs is the re-integration of rehabilitated alcoholics |
| there are programs that even last for a shorter period | | | | in society by developing social skills such as |
| of time. These programs provide twenty-four hour day | | | | accountability, which may have been impaired by the |
| care in a residential setting and the treatment focuses | | | | alcoholism. |