Resisting 12-step coercion : how to fight forced participation in AA, NA or 12-step treatment /
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Author / Creator: | Peele, Stanton. |
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Imprint: | Tucson, Ariz. : See Sharp Press, ©2000. |
Description: | 204 pages ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11340949 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Preface
- Foreword
- 1.. The Nature of the Problem
- What is alcoholism?
- The number of alcohol abusers
- The dominance of 12-step groups
- The dominance of 12-step treatment
- The number of facilities and the number of those treated
- The cost of 12-step treatment
- Avenues of coercion
- Are coerced persons really alcoholics?
- The disease concept of alcoholism
- 12-step treatment
- 2.. The Efficacy of 12-Step Groups and 12-Step Treatment
- The efficacy of AA and NA
- Efficacy of 12-step and other traditional alcoholism treatments
- 12-step drug treatment
- The "best" evidence of the efficacy of 12-step treatment
- Is abstinence necessary?
- What works?
- Summary
- 3.. 12-Step Groups as Religious Organizations
- Religious elements in AA's practices
- Religious elements in AA's program and literature
- AA's religious origins
- Summary
- 4.. The Courts and Coerced 12-Step Attendance
- The 12 steps
- Resolved and unresolved issues
- U.S. court rulings against mandated AA/12-step program participation
- Summary
- 5.. Informed Consent
- Legal requirements
- Ethical principles
- Clinical benefits
- Remedies, violation of medical principles in addiction treatment
- 6.. A Prototypical Case of Alcoholism Treatment and Coercion: G. Douglas Talbott
- A troubled program
- The Talbott philosophy and its sources
- The Masters case
- What the Masters case and judgment tell us
- 7.. Summary of Legal and Clinical Objections to Compulsory AA, 12-Step, and Abstinence Treatment
- Legal issues
- Informed consent
- Therapeutic issues
- Appendices
- A.. A Complaint Regarding Alcoholism Therapist Misconduct
- Narrative
- Assessment of the report
- Violations of ASAM principles of medical ethics
- Misdiagnosis of alcohol dependence
- Attachment: assessment of Captain Smythe
- Diagnosis of Capt. Smythe
- Alternate view of diagnosis
- Postscript
- B.. Secular Self-Help Groups
- References
- Index