Co-Dependents Anonymous ( CoDA ) is a twelve-step program for people who have the same desire to develop functional and healthy relationships. The first CoDA meeting attended by 30 people was held on October 22, 1986 in Phoenix, Arizona. In four weeks there were 100 people and before that year there were 120 groups. CoDA held its first National Service Conference the following year with 29 representatives from seven states. CoDA has stabilized in about a thousand meetings in the US, and with meetings that are active in 60 other countries and some online.
CoDA itself avoids defining rigid codependency, and an understanding of codependency with CoDA continues to adapt from time to time. In 1991, Charles Whitfield published a checklist of Likert-type-38 types based on a 1989 version of the CoDA pamphlet, "What is Dependency?" known as the Co-Dependents An-dependent Checklist. Subsequent research found scores from people who completed the Anonymous Checklist of Addiction and the Spann-Fischer Linkage Scale strongly correlated. The checklist quoted by Whitfield has been developed into the Pattern and Characteristics of Codependency. At the 2010 CoDA Service Conference (CSC), the list changed from 22 items in four Patterns called Denial, Low Self-Esteem, Compliance and Control, to 55 items divided into the same group as the addition of Avoid Patterns. Here's an example of each Pattern :. "I'm having trouble identifying what I feel... I judge what I think, say or do harshly, because it's never good enough... I set aside my own interests to do what others want... I am with free to offer suggestions and directions to others without being asked... I use indirect or evasive communication to avoid conflict or confrontation. "
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External links
- Anonymous Co-Dependents
- Anonymous Foreigners English
- Co-Dependents Recovery Society (Canada)
- Works by or about Co-Dependents Anonymous in the library (WorldCat catalog)
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