A Clinician's Guide to 12-Step Recovery: Integrating 12-Step Programs into Psychotherapy

The worlds of psychotherapy and addiction recovery have long been uneasy bedfellows. Most rehabilitation programs offer both twelve-step treatment and psychotherapy, but they are not integrated either in theory or in practice. While intuitively there would appear to be a clear connection between these two areas, in fact, they remain uncomfortable allies, and sometimes not even that.

People in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction are often wary of professionals who have no personal exper...