Table 2.

New skills introduced in each module of the Inroads program.

Modules	Skills learned
Module 1	Normative feedback about alcohol use; understanding motives for change and the interrelationship between anxiety and alcohol use; psychoeducation regarding the cognitive, physiological, and behavioral aspects of anxiety and alcohol use; goal setting and drinking limits; and emotion surfing to ride out cravings and uncomfortable feelings
Module 2	Understanding the ABCa model and cognitive therapy targeting anxious thoughts
Module 3	Cognitive behavioral therapy strategies for sticking to drinking limits, cognitive therapy targeting positive alcohol expectancies (ie. ‘drinking thinking’), assertiveness, and handling group dynamics
Module 4	Understanding avoidance and anxiety and graded behavioral experiments
Module 5	Enhancing social support, longer-term goal setting, and relapse prevention

^aABC: Refers to activating event or objective situation, belief, and consequences.