Diagnostic Interview Research

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The diagnostic interview is vital for collecting data about the individuals drinking habits. It helps to provide information to assist in forming a treatment plan, which would be important for future progress.
Great care is taken to enable the client to feel that they can commit to a course of treatment, that will bring about major life changes, necessary for complete abstinence.
An important point of the diagnostic interview, is that it sets both counsellor and client on course and in turn builds a structure to which the counsellor can return to again and

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