Counseling may do little to help young people with drinking problems, a large-scale review finds.
Researchers analyzed 66 studies that included nearly 18,000 people 25 and younger, many of whom were at high risk for drinking problems. Participants in 49 studies attended a single one-on-one counseling session, while participants in the rest of the studies attended group sessions or a mix of group and individual sessions.
A counseling technique called motivational interviewing was used in the studies. This technique was developed in the 1980s and is one of the methods used to help people with drinking problems.
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