Table 2.
Participants’ Sudden Gains (SGs) during Treatment
| Number of women experiencing SGs after individual sessions:
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Session preceding SG |
Main interventions in session (Female-specific interventions bolded) |
# of women with SG/ # women with eligible data (n) |
% experienced SG |
| 1 | Psychoeducation on female alcoholism | ||
| Self-monitoring and recording of alcohol use | |||
| Developing an abstinence plan | |||
| 2 | Functional analysis of drinking behavior | 24/63 | 38.1% |
| 3 | Stimulus control | 19/50 | 38.0% |
| Self-management planning | |||
| Problem solving for heavy drinkers in social network | |||
| 4 | Enhancing motivation | 12/45 | 26.7% |
| Decisional matrix | |||
| 5 | Coping with anxiety | 14/40 | 35.0% |
| Coping with depression | |||
| Dealing with urges | |||
| 6 | Management of emotions and moods | 9/41 | 22.0% |
| 7 | Improving social support for abstinence | 12/32 | 37.5% |
| Dealing with alcohol-related thoughts | |||
| 8 | Assertiveness training | 7/31 | 22.6% |
| Drink refusal | |||
| 9 | Anger management | 6/28 | 21.4% |
| Relapse prevention I | |||
| 10 | Problem solving skills | ||
| Relapse prevention II | |||
| 11 | Relapse prevention III: Lapse and relapse | ||
| 12 | Relapse prevention IV: Planning for maintenance | ||
Note: SG = Sudden Gain; as the calculation of SGs requires data from two between-session periods before and two after the between-session gap of interest, SGs could only be computed for sessions 2–9 of the 12 total sessions.
See Method for more detail.