Summer Nebroikon June 17, 9Z3 5
Europeans differ in drMdng habits professor
By Jeanne Mohatt
Europeans have different drinking
habits and attitudes than Americans do,
says a UNL assistant professor of psy
chology. Gary Lawson, 36, teaches a weekend
course for people who work with alcohol
ics or in alcoholism-related fields. The
study of cultural differences in drinking
habits is only one part of the course.
Lawson has worked for 10 years with
those suffering from alcoholism. At one
time he was the director of an in-patient
clinic in Carbondale, III
Work as interna
Most of the 12 people taking the
course, which began Saturday and will
end June 29, work part-time as interns in
agencies across the state, Lawson said.
Some of those agencies are the United
Catholic Services and the Immanuel
Medical Center Alcoholism Treatment
Center, both of Omaha, the Independent
Center of Lincoln, and the Washington
County Alcoholism Program of Blair.
Lawson said the course is an examina
tion of community issues, national, state
and local alcoholism agencies, legal
issues, cultural attitudes, referral tech
niques, and service planning.
"We spend half a day on abnormal
psychology issues involving the compli
cations of alcoholism," he said. " Not
everybody who is an alcoholic has other
complications."
But some alcoholics can have prob
lems ranging from "a simple neurosis to a
pretty heavy psychosis," he said.
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Cultural differences
Lawson, who has a doctoral degree in
counselor training, said he was stationed
in Europe for about five years during the
Vietnam conflict. There, he had a chance
to view firsthand the cultural differences
between the European and American
drinking habits.
"The English pub is a great deal dif
ferent from the American cocktail bar,"
he said.
Hie pubs serve lunch from 11 to 2, and
then close until 6 p.m. Then they reopen
for about four hours.
The pubs have both a lounge and a
bar, he said. .The bar is for the working
class people, while the lounge is where
men take their wives to sit and talk.
Americans have abused drinking be
cause "as a country, we're puritanical in
our background and approach to drink
ing," he said.
Americans think they are doing what
is outside of the accepted norms of
several religions.
Lawson said he will teach another
course entitled "Treatment Methods and
Modalities" beginning July 12. The
three-credit-hour class will meet on three
consecutive weekends from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Lawson said anyone wishing to attend
the course can register at 9 a.m. July 12
in Room 111 Burnett Hall.
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