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title: "Effects of a Nonviolent Communication-based training program for inpatient alcoholics in South Korea - Center for Nonviolent Communication"
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url: "https://www.cnvc.org/learn/research/effects-nonviolent-communication-inpatient-alcoholics-south-korea"
date: "2026-10-23T23:52:48+00:00"
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#  Effects of a Nonviolent Communication-based training program for inpatient alcoholics in South Korea

Academic Journal Article by **Yang, Jeongwoon., Kim, Sungjae.** in English (2021)

 Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2021 Jul;57(3):1187-1194

**Purpose:** This study aimed to evaluate a communication skills program based on Nonviolent Communication targeted on inpatient alcoholics at the alcoholics specialized ward.

**Design and Methods**: The sample for this mixed methods quasi-experimental study comprised 47 patients who were hospitalized in the alcoholic wards of two psychiatric hospitals in South Korea.

**Findings:** The program effectively improved participants' empathy, anger expression, communication competence, and alcohol abstinence self-efficacy (p <.001).

**Practice implications:** This program could be implemented in community-based alcoholic care with the aim of preventing relapse and serve as the basis for developing similar programs for family members.

**Keywords:** abstinence self-efficacy; alcoholics; anger; empathy; nonviolent communication.

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