12 STEP MEETING

12 Step Meeting

12 Step Meeting

Introduction

The twelve-step program is the spiritual program of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), the alcoholics to abstinence from alcohol and to a new lifestyle to help. The program was developed in the 1930s by Alcoholics William Griffith Wilson and Robert Holbrook Smith developed based on their own experiences and alcohol abuse in the book Alcoholics Anonymous stated and explained. Target groups were alcoholics and physicians, therapists and representatives of religious groups who wanted to help alcoholics (Sinister, 2008).

Members in twelve-step groups are recommended on a voluntary basis to work through the Twelve Steps, a condition for attending ...