Creative Interventions for DWI Offenders

Abstract

The Creative Interventions Alcohol Awareness Program provides innovative and effective treatment of individuals with multiple Driving While Intoxicated arrests. Albert Bandura's social learning theory provides a theoretical basis for the use of behavioral techniques to help group members acquire effective interpersonal skills. Behavioral change in the program is fostered by a gestalt orientation, cognitive restructuring, and experimentation with eleven specifically defined behaviors. The particularly difficult problem of measuring the effect of a program has been incorporated into the learning process, with observable behaviors providing group leaders and participants with a sound basis for evaluation.