Treatment of alcohol use disorder from a psychological point of view

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Coriale G., Fiorentino D., Solombrino S., Scalese B., Ciccarelli R., Vitali M., Musetti A., Ceccanti M., Addolorato G., Aliotta V., Alessandrini G., Luisa Attilia M., Barletta G., Battaglia E., Battagliese G., Capriglione I., Carito V., Casciani O., Casella P., Cesarini F., Cibin M., Ciolli P., Di Prinzio A., Fagetti R., Falconi E., Federico M., Ferraguti G., Gencarelli S., Giuliani A., Greco A., Iannuzzi S., Intaschi G., Janiri L., Lagrutta A., La Torre G., Laviola G., Ledda R., Leggio L., Leonardi C., Loffreda A., Lugoboni F., Macri S., Mancinelli R., Marconi M., Maremmani I., Maviglia M., Mistretta M., Montesano F., Parisi M., Pascale E., Perciballi R., Pisciotta F., Rotondo C., Spinnato G., Valchera A., Zavan V., De Rosa Francesca, Attilia Fabio, Fiore Marco, Messina M. P.
ISSN: 0035-6484

The development of a treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a crucial and complex moment. Indeed, the information gathered by a team of professionals (physicians, psychologists and social workers) (bio-psycho-social model of AUD) interact to choose the most appropriate cure. As for AUD psychological treatment, it is of considerable importance to avoid clinical treatments leading to drop-out for improving the patients quality of life. Psychoanalytic and behavioral techniques were early utilized as psychological treatment of AUD, however, evidence-based approaches as motivational interviewing (MI) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) are recently used in AUD. In this work we review the more effective and appropriate AUD psychological treatments.

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