The effectiveness of an indigenised group counselling programme in aftercare service for drug supervisees: A one-year follow-up study

Abstract

This paper attempts to examine 2 areas: a) the effectiveness of a group counselling model by comparing an experimental group (N = 100) and a control group (N = 89) in terms of success rates and effective measurement units one year after completing the programme, and; b) the differences in social characteristics of success and failure cases between the 2 groups.It is shown that this group counselling model is effective in helping ex-drug addicts to kick their drug-seeking behaviour. ~2 and t tests also show that the experimental success cases were significantly older and more involved in crimes than were the success controls, while the experimental failures were also found to be significantly older and more likely to be married than the control failures.