Revision as of 11:35, 16 January 2020 edit SkylabField (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 1,564 edits →Criticism: Not sure if this is the correct style, but using “Moderation Management” the first time the group is mentioned in a paragraph, and MM for subsequent mentions. ← Previous edit		Revision as of 07:50, 17 January 2020 edit undo SkylabField (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 1,564 edits →Methodology: MOS:ACROFIRSTUSE does not actually specify how often we use the full version and how often we use the acronym. To be consistent, I will use “Moderation Management” the first time it’s used in a section, and MM elsewhere in the section. Next edit →
Line 16: ==Methodology== MMModeration Management allows members to set their own drinking goals as they feel appropriate.<ref name="HUMPHREYS2004"/> MM encourages members to follow particular drinking guidelines, limits, goal setting techniques, and a nine-step [[Cognitive behavioral therapy\|cognitive-behavioral]] change program.<ref name="SOLOMON2005">{{Cite book\|title=AA: Not the Only Way \|last=Solomon \|first=Melanie \|isbn=978-0-9762479-9-9 \|year=2005 \|publisher=Capalo Press \|chapter=Part Three: Moderation Management \|pages=39–41}}</ref> The MM limits and guidelines were derived from the work of Dr. Martha Sanchez-Craig.<ref name="SANCHEZCRAIG2005">{{Cite journal\|last=Sanchez-Craig \|first=Martha \|title=Empirically based guidelines for moderate drinking: 1-year results from three studies with problem drinkers \|journal=American Journal of Public Health \|volume=85 \|issue=6 \|pages=823–828 \|author2=Wilkinson, D. Adrian \|author3=Davila, Rafaela \|year=1995 \|pmid=7762717 \|doi=10.2105/AJPH.85.6.823 \|pmc=1615483}}</ref> MM members are encouraged, but do not need to follow, the suggested guidelines, limits and steps. MM does not view non-dependent problem drinkers as [[alcoholism\|alcoholics]], but rather people with a bad, but controllable, [[Habit (psychology)\|habit]]. MM does not state that [[Surrender (spirituality and psychology)\|surrender]] or [[spirituality]] is needed to end or control the habit.<ref name="ROTGERS2000">{{Cite journal\|last=Rotgers \|first=Frederick \|author2=Kishline, Audrey \|title=Moderation Management: A support group for persons who want to reduce their drinking, but not necessarily abstain \|journal=International Journal of Self-Help and Self Care \|year=1999–2000 \|pages=145–158 \|volume=1 \|issue=2 \|doi=10.2190/8909-FFH3-44BA-HKVN}}</ref> MM literature makes a similar distinction to Alcoholics Anonymous literature that there are problem drinkers who can return to controlled drinking and alcoholics who can not.<ref name="HUMPHREYS2003">{{Cite journal\|last=Humphreys \|first=Keith \|title=Alcohol & drug abuse: A research-based analysis of the Moderation Management controversy \|journal=Psychiatric Services \|volume=54 \|date=May 2003 \|pages=621–622 \|pmid=12719491 \|doi=10.1176/appi.ps.54.5.621 \|issue=5}}</ref>

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