Psychiatric and psychological brief psychotherapy for chronic alcoholism

Kurzfassung/Abstract

Brief Psychiatric Psychotherapy (PKP) for alcohol dependence covers all the important evidence-based therapeutic strategies for treating alcoholism. It can be used in individual and group settings. The PKP manual is a safe guide that helps to master even difficult passages of treatment. The therapy consists of three pillars (modules) - symptom therapy, skills training and replacing the dysfunctional overriding rule with a new permission-giving rule of life as an elegant way of dealing with therapeutic resistance in addiction. The evaluation shows encouraging interim results.