What is a '12 Step Programme'?

Question

Can any one advise me as to what this refers to as my partner (bless her) tells me that if I don't know by now it's about time that I did!
So, any thing to keep the little lady happy I said that when I find the time then I would look into it -so here I am looking into it!(Yawn)

Answer 1

um... do you happen to have a problem with alchohol or drugs? A 12 step programme is a gradual, and as yet the most successful, way to get free of an addiction. As far as I know.

Answer 2

There are many 12 Step Programs but the one most people are familar with by name is Alcoholics Anonymous and founded by a New York Stockbroker (known as Bill W) and medical doctor from Akron, Ohio (know as Dr. Bob) during the Great Depression for people suffering from alcoholism as a self-help group. It was Bill's wife with some other'sthat founded what you could call AA's sister organization Al-Anon as a self-help group to help out those who have people in their lives who are alcoholics. The 12 steps are the guidelines members of AA and later other groups follow to help members to deal with there affliction. Below I have left a link to a website that will take you to most of the 12 step programs (but not all) on the web. This should help you get started.

Answer 3

A 12 step program is a set of suggestions employed by various groups to combat addiction. It was invented in the 1920's and 30's by Bill Wilson who was a co founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Based loosely around The Oxford Groups which were spiritually based programs, and the work of psychiatrist and analyst Carl Jung.

Answer 4

12 step program usually refers to Alcoholics Anonymous or a similar program in which you do the steps one at a time to lead a healthier life.

Answer 5

It is the program used by Alcoholics Anonymous

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.

Answer 6

Sounds like she is telling you to go to Alcoholics Anonymous. They have a 12 step program are you a heavy drinker.

Answer 7

sounds like she thinks you drink too much. The 12 step is a recovery program for AA. It's not for everybody, but it may be time to at least attend a meeting.

Answer 8

I think it's a dance. A bit like the Two-Step, but a lot more complicated. Try some of the Come Dancing forums.

Stufa

Answer 9

its a programme having 12 steps

Answer 10

Hi.

Formal definition here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_step_program

About.com has an article on 12 Step Programs and resources:

http://alcoholism.about.com/

http://alcoholism.about.com/library/weekly/aa980729.htm?terms=12+step+program

And here's a link to additional articles and online 12-step forums:

http://alcoholism.about.com/od/mags/index.htm?terms=12+step+program

Let me know if this helps.

Best! :-)