Twenty-eight participants in alcohol treatment groups showed decreases in denial of drinking problems and decreases in psychopathology following 12 weeks of group counsel-ing. Participants who experienced the group as most accepting experienced greatest degrees of self-acceptance as predicted by the Rogerian model. Greater self-acceptance was associated with greater decreases in denial. Several Yalom categories including catharsis, hope, and identification were also associated with decreases in denial and psychopathology.
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