twelve step
Sobriety meeting format
Twelve step describes programs for overcoming addiction or compulsive behavior, modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous and its twelve guiding principles.
The steps progress from admitting powerlessness to making amends to helping others.
As a verb, to twelve-step someone is to guide them through recovery or, more loosely, to proselytize any self-improvement method: She tried to twelve-step me about meditation.
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- sobrietyUnimpaired mental state
- meetingsOrganized group assemblies
- AA meetingAddiction recovery gathering
- sponsorFunder of activities
one day at a time · alcoholics · anonymous · addiction · rock bottom · fellowship · making amends · amends · powerless · higher power · serenity · program · surrender · abstinence · rehab · confession · inventory · defects
- rehabrehab, rehabilitation, drug rehab, inpatient rehab, detox
- treatmentaddiction treatment, drug rehab, inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, rehab
- mental healthpsychiatry, psychotherapy, mental illness, psychiatrist, therapist
- therapiesart therapy, physical therapy, physiotherapy, speech therapy, music therapy
- addictionaddiction, drug addiction, substance abuse, drug dependence, substance dependency
twelve stepcold turkey
Immediate complete cessation
harm reduction · relapse · denial · white-knuckling · enabling
twelve stepcognitive behavioral therapy
Treatment restructuring harmful thought patterns
twelve stepcold turkey
Immediate complete cessation
going it alone · white-knuckling · no support · individual therapy
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