Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is the largest and most commonly known self-help group in the world. Since the creation of AA in 1935‚ there have been many programs modeled after it‚ which are also based on the 12-Step Program. Some of these include Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and Chemically Dependent Anonymous‚ as well as programs for specific drugs‚ such as Cocaine Anonymous (CA) and Crystal Meth Anonymous (NIDA‚ 2012). Attendance and participation for self-help groups are open for anyone to attend and
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Narcotics Anonymous: Twelve Steps to Recovery By Faye Stottrup 15 November 2001 Stottrup 1 The basis of the Narcotics Anonymous recovery program is a series of personal activities known as the Twelve Steps‚ adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous or AA is perhaps
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Alcoholics Anonymous: The 12-Step Treatment Alcoholics Anonymous: The 12-Step Treatment The 12-step program used by Alcoholics Anonymous is a well-known treatment method that’s used for many types of addiction‚ not just alcohol. Alcoholics are encouraged to “work” the 12-steps. The first step involves admitting the powerlessness over alcohol. The second step has the alcoholic believe that there is some type of a greater power working that will help aide the alcoholic to reach sobriety‚ as
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THE TWO-STEP FLOW MODEL OF COMMUNICATION INTRODUCTION The two-step flow of communication hypothesis was first formulated by → Paul F. Lazarsfeld and his colleagues in their classical study on the 1940 American presidential election (1944). It states that there is usually no direct influence of the mass media on the general public. Rather‚ “ideas often flow from radio and print to the opinion leaders and from them to the less active sections of the population” (Lazarsfeld 1944). This assumption
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many corporations that everyone in the building enjoys working with everyone. To find this is a rare thing. To help employees work together and get along employers are hiring “conflict resolution” companies to educate their employees on the proper steps to resolve a conflict. Conflict Resolution Example There are many examples of conflicts in the healthcare workplace; this is one involving a Nurse Practitioner and a Physician. The Nurse Practitioner has just finished seeing a patient on the medical/surgical
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 The book that I chose to read for my book review was‚ The Eight Essential Steps To Conflict Resolution by Dr. Dudley Weeks. The reason I chose to read a book on conflict resolution was to further improve my skills at avoiding and dealing with problems. Because I feel that a person truly shows their character not when things are going well but when things begin to go bad. And having the ability to deal with those problems strengthens one as a person. Dudley Weeks‚ PH.D. is widely
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recover from alcoholism. A.A. is based upon a Twelve Step program to recovery that acts as a personal guide to sobriety. Countless individuals find their sobriety in this volunteer fellowship‚ in fact many find the Twelve Steps to be their personal miracle; this is eloquently articulated in Understanding the Twelve Steps: Working the Steps can create the miracle of sobriety‚ but the miracle isn’t magic. The miracle occurs because working the Twelve Steps allows people to use powerful principles of recovery
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Keira Cass and Suzanne Weyn are two authors who ask questions that others are afraid to ask or don’t even think of. What could the future look like? What if’s? These are only some questions that they have asked themselves when starting to write The Crown: by Kiera Cass published May 2016‚ and Empty: by Suzanne Weyn published in 2010. Kiera Cass is a young woman who has written an archetype based on Cinderella and Esther. She imagines “what if” for both stories. Suzanne Wayne; however‚ found inspiration
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So‚ in the 1940s‚ some of the researchers introduce two-step flow model. Two-step flow model is came out because they think that communication is a complex process. A book‚ ‘The People’s Choice’ has been wrote by American sociologist Paul F Lazarsfeld. He summarized his research of November 1940 presidential election in his book. He discovered that people are more likely to be influenced by other people than the mass media on his research. He named this kind of people ‘opinion leaders’. Then‚ he
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was 85 points lower‚ 878” (p131). Permian’s SAT scores have dropped dramatically since 1970s and no one seems to care anymore. There are large amounts of students failing academic performance and it seems is not important after all for people in Odessa. For
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