Co-Dependents Anonymous Explained
Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA) is a twelve-step program for people who share a common desire to develop functional and healthy relationships.[1] [2] 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.[3] Within four weeks there were 100 people and before the year was up there were 120 groups.[4] CoDA held its first National Service Conference the next year with 29 representatives from seven states.[5] [4] 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.[6]
CoDA meeting indexes managed independently[7] include:
Alternative Format VE (Virtual meetings) Australasia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, South Africa, United Kingdom, France, other francophone countries
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External links
CoDA Literature
US States
Notes and References
- Book: Rice, John Steadman . A Disease of One's Own: Psychotherapy, Addiction, and the Emergence of Co-Dependency . registration . 1996 . Transaction Publishers . . 0765804549 . 33009336.
- Co-Dependents Anonymous . The Preamble of Co-Dependents Anonymous . 1998 . 2010-01-03 . 1999-11-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/19991110055814/http://www.codependents.org/codapre.html . dead .
- Irvine . Leslie J. . Codependency and Recovery: Gender, Self, and Emotions in Popular Self-Help . Symbolic Interaction . 18 . 2 . 145–163 . 1995 . 10.1525/si.1995.18.2.145 . 10.1525/si.1995.18.2.145.
- Book: Irving, Leslie. Codependent Forevermore, The Invention of Self in a Twelve Step Group. 1999. University of Chicago Press. Chicago. 0-226-38471-3. 30.
- Book: Codependents Anonymous. Codependents Anonymous. 1995. Codependents Anonymous, Inc.. Phoenix, AZ. 0-9647105-0-1. registration.
- Web site: Meeting finder.
- Web site: International Meetings . 2024-01-17 . CoDA.org . en-US.
