Are there any studies that support the St. Gregory Center?
A. In 2003 William R. Miller (Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico) and his colleagues rated forty-eight kinds of treatment by combining the results of 381 controlled trials that had compared the effectiveness of a treatment [method] with either no treatment or with other alcoholism therapies. The treatment with by far the best score was ‘brief intervention’ – followed by motivational enhancement, community reinforcement, and social-skills training. The least effective treatments were found to be general alcoholism counseling and education, ordinary psychotherapy, and confrontational therapies – the very treatments most utilized in the U.S. (Twelve-step interventions and AA were ranked 37th and 38th among the 48 treatments reviewed). St. Gregory Retreat Center is a program that emphasizes values and motivation, behavior modification training, life-skills exercises, Cognitive Behavior Training (CBT), and community reintegration.
