SOCW 6202 Week 9 - Assignment: Scholar Practitioner Project Assignment: 12-Step Programs and Community resources

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Week 9: Personal and Professional Policies, Processes, and Resources

Community resources like Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs are important tools in addressing addiction. There are also many other important resources available other than 12-step support groups, but their existence is often dependent on public support, funding, and regulatory policies. Legislation that supports the funding of community resources to address addiction can make all the difference in providing support for people with problems with addiction in their work toward recovery.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

· Evaluate social change legislation

· Analyze interaction between social change legislation and professional codes of ethics

· Analyze social change implications for helping professionals

· Apply individual and community resources related to addiction recovery

· Evaluate 12-step programs for addiction recovery

Learning Resources

Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

Doweiko, H. E. (2019). Concepts of chemical dependency (10th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage.

· Chapter 27, "The Substance Use Disorders As a Disease of the Human Spirit" (pp. 376-388)

· Chapter 35, "Support Groups to Promote and Sustain Recovery" (pp. 493-505)

· Chapter 38, "The Debate Over Legalization" (pp. 543-555)

Required Media

Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (2012). The twelve steps and twelve traditions online. Retrieved from http://www.aa.org/1212/

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Assignment: Scholar Practitioner Project Assignment: 12-Step Programs and Community resources

The value of mutual support groups as a community resource has been widely recognized, and most treatment professionals encourage participation. The most well-known support groups are the 12-step groups. The original 12-step support group, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), was founded in the 1930s. Since then, the 12-step philosophy has been applied to almost every addiction known.

For this Assignment, you analyze the role of community resources, including 12-step programs, in supporting addiction recovery. Revisit the media from previous weeks to prepare for the Assignment.

Assignment:

In a 800-word APA-formatted paper, address the following:

· Create a list of community resources in Dayton Ohio.

· Describe two individual resources from your list that you might recommend for Marge and two community resources that you might recommend for Marge's family.

· Explain why those resources might be suitable for supporting Marge's recovery.

· Explain the stepped approach to 12-step programs and how this relates to the treatment of Marge.

· Explain the role of spirituality in 12-step programs.

· Explain whether you would recommend a 12-step program for Marge and why.

Must contain at least 4 References and Citations from this weeks resources.