Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA) is a
twelve-step program
Twelve-step programs are international mutual aid programs supporting recovery from substance addictions, behavioral addictions and compulsions. Developed in the 1930s, the first twelve-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), aided its members ...
for people who share a common desire to develop functional and healthy relationships.
Co-Dependents Anonymous was founded by Ken and Mary Richardson and the first CoDA meeting attended by 30 people was held October 22, 1986 in
Phoenix, Arizona
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Within four weeks there were 100 people and before the year was up there were 120 groups.
CoDA held its first National Service Conference the next year with 29 representatives from seven states.
CoDA has stabilized at about a thousand meetings in the US, and with meetings active in 60 other countries and dozens online that can be reached at www.coda.org.
See also
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Alcoholism in family systems
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Adult Children of Alcoholics Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA or ACOA) founded circa 1973 is a fellowship of people who desire to recover from the effects of growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional family. ACA membership has few formal requirements. ACA does not ...
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Al-Anon/Alateen
Al-Anon Family Groups, founded in 1951, is an international mutual aid organization for people who have been impacted by another person's alcoholism. In the organization's own words, Al-Anon is a "worldwide fellowship that offers a program of rec ...
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Codependency
In sociology, codependency is a theory that attempts to explain imbalanced relationships where one person enables another person's self-destructive behavior such as addiction, poor mental health, immaturity, irresponsibility, or under-achiev ...
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Emotions Anonymous
Emotions Anonymous (EA) is a twelve-step program for recovery from mental and emotional illness. there were approximately 300 Emotions Anonymous groups active in the United States and another 300 around the world.
History
Marion Flesch (July ...
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List of twelve-step groups
This is a list of Wikipedia articles about specific twelve-step recovery programs and fellowships. These programs, and the groups of people who follow them, are based on the set of guiding principles for recovery from addictive, compulsive, o ...
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Nar-Anon
Nar-Anon, known officially as "Nar-Anon Family Groups", is a twelve-step program for friends and family members of those who are affected by someone else's addiction. Nar-Anon is complementary to, but separate from, Narcotics Anonymous (NA), analo ...
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Self-help groups for mental health
Self-help groups for mental health are voluntary associations of people who share a common desire to overcome mental illness or otherwise increase their level of cognitive or emotional wellbeing. Despite the different approaches, many of the psycho ...
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Twelve Traditions
The Twelve Traditions of twelve-step programs provide guidelines for relationships between the twelve-step groups, members, other groups, the global fellowship, and society at large. Questions of finance, public relations, donations, and purpose ar ...
References
External links
Co-Dependents AnonymousCo-Dependents Anonymous - AustralasiaCo-Dependents Anonymous United Kingdom (and Meeting Information)Co-Dependents Anonymous - IrelandCo-Dependents Anonymous Literature
Co-Dependents Anonymous Online ForumCo-Dependents Anonymous NetherlandsCo-Dependents Recovery Society(Canada)
Co-Dependents Anonymous Arizona
Co-Dependents Anonymous Portland, Oregon and Metro Area
Co-Dependents Anonymous Tucson
Co-Dependientes anónimos(Colombia)
Co-Dependents Anonymous(Germany)
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