iques have often shown that they help to reduce not only the substance abuse but other related problems that are seen among various individuals (Kaminer, 2000). There are two important and relatively significant difficulties that generally dominate when the treatment of these individuals is examined (Kaminer, 2000). The first one of these is a lack of motivation that many of these individuals have to enter the treatment arena and remain in it until treatment has been completed (Kaminer, 2000). The retention rates are therefore very low to moderate and the dropout rates are exceedingly high (Kaminer, 2000; VanBremen & Chasnoff, 1994; Vinovskis, 1993; Wallis, 1986; White, 1994). Second, most of the studies that deal with substance abuse and treatment rely on strictly objective measurement in order to help assess how well the treatment outcome actually appears (Kaminer, 2000).
The treatment being very important in this case for the family as well as the individual, the therapist began with a ge
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