In addition, throughout the sessions, interventionists tried to
establish a partnership with participants to enhance autonomous
supportive climate, assuring participants of their choices, providing
participants relevant feedback in a nonjudgmental way and sup-
porting the participants' decisions and efforts to cope with the
consequences of their choices regardless of goal attainment
Supportive small group meetings were also utilized to foster social
interaction with supportive nonjudgmental peer groups, to in-
crease participants' self-esteem, and to provide positive feedback