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1Instytut Psychologii, Uniwersytet Kard. St. Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie.
Aim:
Testing effectiveness of psychotherapy by evaluating changes in private and public self-consciousness of alcohol addicted persons and imprisoned felons.
Method:
The questionnaire known as Self-Consiousness Scale Fenigstein, Scheier, Buss's was applied. The tool is based on the theory of Duval and Wicklund and that of Carver and Scheier. Treatment curriculum--was based on two models of alcohol addiction. the psychological one and the other derived of assumptions defined in the Alcoholics Anonymous movement.
Results:
In the course of the psychotherapeutic treatment--discordantly with prior research expectations--neither the so-called private nor the public self-consciousness changed. In turn, as hypothesised, social anxiety decreased significantly.
Conclusions:
1. Decrease of social anxiety shows effectiveness of the therapeutic approach, which is higher than that of the sole Alcoholics Anonymous programme. 2. Further research should be focused on refinement of both the tool measuring self-consciousness changes and some elements of the therapeutic agenda.
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