What Is the Model of the 12 Step Approach?
Question by Greek American: What is the model of the 12 step approach?
What is the model of the 12 step approach? What does it mean? The only thing my Psychology teacher told me was it is it has something to deal with alcoholics. Please help me.
Best answer:
Answer by Bob T
It’s from Alcoholics Anonymous. Their book is here:
http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/en_tableofcnt.cfm
The 12 steps are in chapter 5.
Answer by Frederic
Alcoholics Anonymous, the worldwide fellowship of recovering alcoholics, is the original “12-Step” self-help program. Since its inception, over 50 other groups have adopted the 12 Steps as a way to recover from problems ranging from sex addiction, to gambling, to over-eating. The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are:
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
The Twelve Steps have become the foundation principle for living a happy, joyous and free life without resorting to the behaviors and mental aberrations that caused people to drink/drug/gamble, etc. in the first place.
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