This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows:

This review will examine all randomised controlled trials which determine the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in pregnant women who are enrolled in alcohol treatment programmes when compared to other psychosocial interventions, placebo, non‐intervention, pharmacological treatment and pharmacological treatment in association with psychosocial treatment on improving birth and neonatal outcomes as well as maternal and neonatal alcohol abstinence and on treatment retention and alcohol reduction.