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Small, David Everett.

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Understanding higher power: Spirituality in the recovery process from alcoholism and other addictions.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Understanding higher power: Spirituality in the recovery process from alcoholism and other addictions./
Author:	Small, David Everett.
Description:	256 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-02, Section: B, page: 1145.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-02B.
Subject:	Psychology, Social. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3005866
ISBN:	0493139966

Understanding higher power: Spirituality in the recovery process from alcoholism and other addictions.
Small, David Everett.

Understanding higher power: Spirituality in the recovery process from alcoholism and other addictions. - 256 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-02, Section: B, page: 1145.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drew University, 2001.

This is a study of spirituality in the recovery process from alcoholism and other addictions. Specifically, this study is a descriptive analysis of the importance and efficacy of the higher power as a relational quality of the recovering person's life. Twelve persons who had maintained recovery from between two to eight years were interviewed. The data gathered from these interviews served as the bases for analyzing their spiritual growth in the recovery process. In a broader sense, this is a study of the spiritual growth process resulting in a comparative study of recovery and of faith development as presented by James Fowler in Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning (1981).

ISBN: 0493139966Subjects--Topical Terms:

529430
Psychology, Social.

Understanding higher power: Spirituality in the recovery process from alcoholism and other addictions.
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520 $a This is a study of spirituality in the recovery process from alcoholism and other addictions. Specifically, this study is a descriptive analysis of the importance and efficacy of the higher power as a relational quality of the recovering person's life. Twelve persons who had maintained recovery from between two to eight years were interviewed. The data gathered from these interviews served as the bases for analyzing their spiritual growth in the recovery process. In a broader sense, this is a study of the spiritual growth process resulting in a comparative study of recovery and of faith development as presented by James Fowler in Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning (1981).
520 $a Giving consideration to the spiritual aspects of recovery can improve efforts toward intervention and treatment. There is confusion in addiction treatment about the importance of addressing spirituality in the treatment phase of recovery. This study deals with the concerns raised by professionals as to the place and importance of spirituality in recovery.
520 $a Spirituality is defined as the dynamic human experience of transcendence manifested by positive changes in the way one lives life. It is characterized primarily by a deep sense of inner peace. Transcendence refers to an awareness of reality beyond the physical senses. A distinction is made between spirituality in recovery and religion.
520 $a This study discusses the fact that higher power presents many problems because of its association with a religious notion of deity. However, the outcome of this study indicates that higher power can provide an avenue for recovery when viewed as a relational quality of the recovery process. While it is true that past religious teachings strongly influence how one constructs and experiences a transcendent reality, current relational experiences of other recovering alcoholics also influence how one views this same transcendent reality---the concept of higher power. Hence, many people entering recovery for the first time will often see the group as higher power.
520 $a It is not surprising that the corporate process of recovery described in this study and which results in spiritual growth has strong similarities with religious activity. This does not make Alcoholics Anonymous or any other support system for recovery a religion. On the contrary, it demonstrates the human personality and the human predilection to relationship.
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