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This is a list of Wikipedia articles about specific twelve-step recovery programs and fellowships. These programs, and the groups of people who follow them, are based on the set of guiding principles for recovery from addictive , compulsive , or other behavioral problems originally developed by Alcoholics Anonymous . [ 1 ]
Clutterers Anonymous (CLA) is a twelve-step program for people who share a common problem with accumulation of clutter.CLA says that it focuses on the underlying issues made manifest by unnecessary physical and emotional clutter, rather than hints, tips and lectures. [1]
Emotions Anonymous (EA) is a derivative program of Neurotics Anonymous [27] and open to anyone who wants to achieve emotional well-being. [18] Following the Twelve Traditions, EA groups cannot accept outside contributions. [18] A similar 12-step program is known as "Emotional Health Anonymous".
Underearners Anonymous (UA) is a twelve-step program founded in 2005 for men and women who have come together to overcome what they call "underearning". Underearning is not just the inability to provide for oneself monetarily including the inability to provide for one's needs presently and in the future but also the general inability to express one's capabilities and competencies.
Twelve-step programs are international mutual aid programs supporting recovery from substance addictions, behavioral addictions and compulsions. Developed in the 1930s, the first twelve-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), founded by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith , aided its membership to overcome alcoholism . [ 1 ]
This publication introduced the twelve-step program and provided the basis for the organization's name. Later editions of the book expanded its subtitle to reflect the inclusion of "Thousands of Men and Women." The Twelve Steps outline a suggested program of ongoing drug rehabilitation and self-improvement.
Debtors Anonymous, a support organization patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous, uses a 12-step program to help people -- first name only -- stop abusing their credit cards and kick their free ...
A Twelve-step program is a fellowship which aims at the recovery of its members from the consequences of an addiction, a compulsion, a mental disorder, illness or another harmful influence on their lives, with the help of the Twelve Steps. Also the specific program of recovery that is applied within such a fellowship, is called a twelve-step ...