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Writing Program Evaluation

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Alcoholics Anonymous Program Evaluation

Program evaluation is defined as the determination to examine whether program

objectives have been met and the collection of information to measure the effectiveness of a

program. In a supplementary context, program evaluation is defined as the process of gathering

systematic information on the nature and quality of educational objects. Program evaluation

pursues to answer how efficient the program’s needs have been met and objectives and set

standards have been attained. Program evaluation also assesses the organization’s quality, the

efficiency of its methods and identifies aspects of the procedures that can be improved. For

instance, Alcoholics Anonymous program evaluations were planned procedurally and

implemented.

The community-based initiative, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a worldwide program

that was formed to support individuals struggling with alcohol drinking problem to maintain

sobriety by peer support over day-to-day meetings and discussions about their addiction.

Alcoholics Anonymous provides individuals a room where they could get together and share

their experiences, recover and get sober. The AA program was initiated by Doctor Bob Smith

and Bill Wilson in 1935. Wilson published Alcoholics Anonymous, explaining the philosophy

and approaches. Its idea orbits around the principle that alcoholism is a sickness that cannot be

controlled, but can only be managed, and the approach outlined the twelve steps of recovery.1

The 12 Steps have since been adapted over the years to help persons struggling with other kinds

of addiction by various institutions. Furthermore, other self-help groups such as Narcotic

Anonymous has implemented the same steps to rescue many men and women from the habit.
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Kelly, John F., Keith Humphreys, and Marica Ferri. "Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12 ‐step

programs for alcohol use disorder." Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 3 (2020)
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AA thorough the principle of social interaction has successfully worked has members

benefit a lot from the emotional and physical support as well as hands-on tips on avoiding the

temptations and urge to drink. From the Wilsons philosophy, change of behavior can be achieved

with some other people looking to have the same change, and with the togetherness in the fight

winning against the addiction and the struggles has been giving positive results. From various

studies AA approach on abstinence has been found significantly better than other measures, that

is, 60% extra operative.2 Furthermore, no study has proved AA less efficient based on various

variables such as outcomes of full abstinence and costs savings. On costs savings, other study

has shown that participating in AA could significantly reduce mental health counseling costs by

$10,000 per individual.

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Kelly, John F., Keith Humphreys, and Marica Ferri. "Alcoholics Anonymous and other

12‐step programs for alcohol use disorder."

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Bibliography

Kelly, John F., Keith Humphreys, and Marica Ferri. "Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12‐step

programs for alcohol use disorder." Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 3 (2020).