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Twelve-Step Program
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twelve-step program,
n group programs that treat problems such as alcoholism by completing twelve tasks. Participants gain self-acceptance and share experiences. Twelve-step programs traditionally ask members to rely on a power greater than their own.
Twelve-Step Program
Addiction disorders Any program modeled after the 12-step self-help-group programs used for rehabilitating alcoholics, Alcoholics Anonymous; central to all 12-SPs is the belief in a God, transpersonal spiritual form of energy, or superhuman power
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Cults seek to control you; AA and other twelve-step programs seek to liberate you.
Do Dings and Divots Reveal Soul? by Spirituality & Health Magazine
Twelve-step programs are used to battle addictions as well as other compulsive and behavior disorders These programs evolved from the twelve-step program introduced by Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1930s Twelve-step programs are used to battle addictions as well as other compulsive and behavior disorders.
What Is the 12 Step Program? by Willie Berky / Food/cooking/nutrition community
Other twelve-step programs are similarly fellowships which aim to aid in the recovery of the consequences of an obsession, addiction, a physical and mental compulsion, or another harmful influence on their lives, with the help of the faith-based Twelve Steps dependent on reliance on "A Power Greater than ourselves".
Alcoholics Anonymous - the Original 12 Step Program by Scott Michaels / Consumer news, advice, product reviews community
 
 
 
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