Twelve-step program

support group for family members of those who are struggling with alcoholism and using the twelve-step model (Fisher & Harrison, 2013). It is a program designed for people who want to recover from the effects of someone else’s drinking. The sole purpose of Al-Anon is to help families of alcoholics. Members share their experiences with others and learn how to apply the principles of the twelve-step program to their specific situations. Members of Al-Anon learn that they are not alone and that…

worldwide organization has reached The Meeting Narcotics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (1986b) outlines the process of the meeting, including the serenity prayer, who is an addict, what is the Narcotics Anonymous program, why are we here, how it works, what can I do, and the Twelve Traditions of NA, recovery and relapse, and just for today.…

12-Step Meetings Summary As a nursing student, each student has to attend and observe two twelve step meetings such as alcohol anonymous, narcotic anonymous, or cocaine anonymous as part of the community health project. I attended two alcoholics anonymous meetings. Alcoholics Anonymous, also known as the AA, is an alcoholism treatment program. There are group meetings in which individuals share their personal experiences about alcoholism and motivate each other to stay sober. According to AA…

stood and repeated the pledge and 12 steps at the start of the meeting. Some participants appeared withdrawn, did not show much emotion on their faces during the meeting, and walked back and forth from their seats to the coffee table. Other participants seemed excited when they saw individuals they knew and quickly shared a smile and greeted each…

12 Steps in Overeaters For my 12 steps paper I decided to attend an overeaters anonymous meeting in Lowell Massachusetts. The meeting was located in the basement of Lowell’s First United Baptist Church. I called ahead of time to speak with Diane who was the leader for the meeting. I explained that I was a student at William James college and was required to attend a meeting. She was more than happy to let me join the group. To my surprise, there was not too many people that attended the meeting…

The final step urges individuals to carry the message to others. Giving back to the community is everybody’s responsibility because it us up to every individual to make the world a better place. This is evident from the simple steps that recovering addicts take such as attending meetings to give encouragement to people who have just began or are struggling with their recovery…

Therapeutic community (TC) is a generic term for residential, self-help, drug-free treatment programs that have some common characteristics, including concepts adopted from Alcoholics Anonymous (Abadinsky, H. (January, 2013). There is no specific data when it comes to the effectiveness of the programs offered at The Beacon House so it is hard to say just how effective the programs really are. However, the fact that the facility has been around for over twenty years must mean that there…

pathways to develop the capacity to move beyond addiction, including caretaking, self-sacrifice and codependency to a healthy level of self-care are needed (Peled & Sacks, 2008). Codependents Anonymous (CoDA) promotes a 12-step approach to recovering from codependency. Twelve-step programs, while helpful to some, do have several drawbacks. First, Dodes (2014) suggests that AA is only 5-10 percent successful. He says that we only hear the success stories. Also, if the person seeking help does…

compared to the teens (ages ranging from 14-20). Research done by Kelly and Myers (2007) had similar outcomes, reporting that although communities encouraged teen involvement/participation in AA programs, they were one third less likely to be involved, outside of their formal treatment, in 12-step programs and the dropout rate from meeting attendance is higher, when compared to adults. The study conducted concluded that attendance predicts sobriety, by two- to three-folds, and that those who…

was on self-determination. All the individuals had a sense of what self-determination was and there were steps to achieving this. Five steps were discussed for achieving success in self-determination. The first step was to decide what you are going to do and is it the right thing you, your goal(s) in other words. The second step is developing a plan to meet your goals. Following the second step is determining what help you may need to achieve what you have decided to do or your meet your goal.…