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 [29].
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