Your Empowering Solutions - Y.E.S.
Non 12 step Program
| 12-Step Programs |
| Non 12-Step believes in empowering people to overcome their addiction; that people are capable of change, improvement and building a better life unhampered by alcohol's hold. | Call all alcoholics powerless. Do not believe they can ever really be recovered. |
Non 12-Step recognizes that nothing works for everyone and that it can be very difficult to figure out what will work for you. | Blames clients "you didn't work the program" when they fail. |
Non 12-Step has no steps. Imagine that?!!
Supports you in the development and design of your life. Holistic in approach; addresses thinking, nutrition and physical health.
| The 12 steps as a treatment model. |
Non 12-Step uses cognitive behavioral therapy. The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) reports that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an effective and recommended treatment for alcoholism. | Started as a marketing strategy. AA wasn't going to market itself so someone else did. It never was intended to create a workable solution to chronic alcoholism. |
Non 12-Step knows that people do not report their behaviors reliably. Definitions of success vary. It is nearly impossible to know any programs real success rate, ours included. | AA's own research shows that AA works for less than 5% of those who try it. |
Non 12-Step creates new lives that leave no room for alcohol; lives that squeezes alcohol use out and leave no interest in a return to the bad old days. | Creates a vacuum. The time, energy and money formerly spent on alcohol are now freed up without there being anything, other than endless meetings, to fill the void. That void sucks people back to the familiar. |
Non 12-Step uses a common sense approach that leaves your religious beliefs to you. | Christian approach dominants. |
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