Attitudes of AA contact persons toward group participation by persons with a mental illness

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1079-1081

  Meissen, Greg ^a   Powell, Thomas J ^b   Wituk, Scott A ^c   Girrens, Kathy ^c   Arteaga, Shirley ^c  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMORBIDITY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE;

EID: 0032819711     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.50.8.1079     Document Type: Article

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