Table 1.

Questions Asked of Focus Group Participants

Question	Patient	Family	Clinician
Concerns About Family Involvement In Treatment
	What challenges has your drinking  created for your family?	What challenges has your loved  one’s drinking created for your  family?
	What challenges has your  treatment created for your  family?
	What are your biggest concerns  about how your family  responds to your drinking?	What are your biggest concerns  about how to respond to your  loved one’s drinking?	What major concerns do you hear  from patients about their  families?
			What major concerns do you hear  from family members about the  patients?
Barriers to Treatment
	How likely do you think it is that  they would come [to  treatment]?	How likely do you think you would be to come [to treatment]?	What programmatic barriers are  there to involving family  members in treatment?
	What would help them decide to  come [to treatment]?	What would help you decide to  come [to treatment]?	What clinical barriers are there to  involving family members in  treatment?
Factors that  Decrease Barriers  to Treatment
	How do you think your family  could be most helpful to you in  not drinking?	How do you think you could be  most helpful to your loved one  in not drinking?	What strategies have you found  helpful in engaging family  members in treatment?
	What would you think of having a  family member participate in  your treatment through a few  sessions with one of the  counselors?	What would you think of  participating in your loved  one’s treatment through a few  sessions with one of the  counselors?
	What family member would you  most like to have involved?