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The Influence of Al-Anon on the Coping Behavior of Wives of Alcoholics

Joan M. Gorman, James F. Rooney

SUMMARY. Whether or not their husbands stop drinking, wives of alcoholics who belong to Al-Anon can modify such counterproductive “coping” as providing the drinker with a safe environment and attempting to control the drinker.