Dispositional assessment with alcoholics

The present research examined the relationships among multiple client characteristics, multiple treatments, and multiple outcomes in an alcoholism setting. Results showed that with regard to employment and abstinence outcome measures, inpatient therapy was better than outpatient therapy for clients experiencing low life instability, low problem severity, and a high socioeconomic status. For clients with the opposite pattern of characteristics, outpatient therapy produced more positive results on the same outcome measures. Results also showed that regardless of client characteristics, inpatients improved more with regard to social activities and outpatients improved more with regard to legal convictions and accidents.