In the spring of 1986 the Cologne- based Association for Education, Perfection and Driver Improvement (AFN) developed a re- education programme for young driving while intoxicated (DWI) offenders named ALFA. The aims of the programme are: (1) disposal of ignorance on the subject of alcohol; (2) to show the consequences of driving while under the influence of alcohol, both for society and for the individual concerned; (3) to make comprehensible to the members of the group the fact that their own desire for sociability, superiority and power are ways of compensating for their own feeling of inadequacy; (4) to work out and test new strategies on dealing with difficult situations in life and crises (fear of unemployment, fear of loneliness, fear of separation, fear of the future). The most important prerequisite here is that the members of the group realize that a feeling of impotence and fear is at the heart of nearly every case of uncontrolled drinking; (5) to encourage the members of the group to apply the new strategies successfully.
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