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P C Rivers

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PubMed1986

Perceptions of deviant stereotypes by alcoholism, mental health, and school personnel in New Zealand and the United States.

The present study examines the ideologies regarding deviance held by alcoholism workers (AW), mental health service providers (MH), and school personnel (SP) in the United States (U.S.) and New Zealand (N.Z.). The two countries subscribe to different sociopolitical systems. The U.S. can be viewed as an individualistic/capitalistic society; N.Z. can be characterized as a social welfare state. It was anticipated that sociopolitical differences would result in differing ideologies regarding deviant persons. It was also anticipated that each group of service providers would, because of their training histories, evidence different ideologies, for example, that the AW sample would differ significantly from the MH sample. No specific predictions concerning these differences were attempted.

Alcohol Drinking↗
PubMed1985

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.

Adolescent↗