Ideological Differences between Professionals and AA Members, Kurtz LF,
Alcoholism
Treatment Quarterly, Vol. 1(2), 73-85 Summer, 1985
“ABSTRACT.
A survey of A.A. members and professional alcoholism treatment center
directors elicited responses to ideology scales developed for this
research. Alcoholics Anonymous often has been called ideological, as
though professionals did not adhere to ideologies. This report
examines the ideologies of both A.A.'s and professionals and
hypothesizes that ideological differences influence mutual
cooperation between them. Both ideology scales elicited significantly
different attitudes between A.A. And professional respondents on the
majority of items. When comparisons were controlled for perceived
degree of cooperation between them, the noncooperators on both sides
differed with each other much more than did cooperating respondents.”
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