Therapeutic Education for Harm Reduction in People With Alcohol Use Disorder

"Choizitaconso is a therapeutic patient education programme that teaches psychosocial skills to people with alcohol use disorder (PWAUD), to help them (re)establish controlled drinking and reduce harms.~It lasts for 10 weeks for each participant and consists of the following 5 modules, including one optional module focusing on the family environment:~1. Understand the mechanisms that trigger and/or maintain alcohol-related difficulties~2. Plan and evaluate personalized controlled drinking strategies~3. Understand and identify external and internal influences (e.g., thoughts and emotions), identify and manage risk situations~4. Identify alcohol effects and alcohol-related expectations (by developing self-observation skills)~5. Family environment: learning how to evaluate and take care of oneself (e.g., how to express feelings)~Each module consists of 2 to 4 collective workshops that each last 120 minutes and involve 5 to 10 persons."