Like ABCT, BCT is suitable to implement alongside 12-step groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous (https://aa.org/) and individual AUD treatments. Data from randomized controlled trials suggest that BCT has excellent feasibility, participant acceptability, and efficacy.33,34,35 BCT also has the ability to reduce maladaptive couple conflict behaviors such as intimate partner violence36 and has been tested for use among military veterans with positive outcomes37 and with couples in which both partners have AUD.38 However, findings from one recent trial indicate that a group adaptation to BCT to treat multiple couples simultaneously did not perform as well as when couples were treated separately.39
