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I denna uppsatts görs ett försök att finna vilka faktorer som kan verka viktiga i en behandling mot ett drogberoende. Den behandlingsform som undersökts är AA:s tolvstegsprogram och dess gemenskap. Undersökningen har en kvalitativ ansatts där vår studie är uppbyggd på intervjuer med sju informanter som har erfarenhet av och arbetar i AA:s tolvstegsprogram och gemenskap, mot sitt drogberoende. Vår studie visar på att erkännandet av sitt beroende, gemenskapen och tron är de faktorer som tycks vara av störst betydelse för våra deltagares tillfrisknande.

The purpose with this study is to examine how the twelve-step program is described by the author J Keith Miller (2004) in his book Steg in i livet and by the author Olle Carlsson (2012) in his book 12steg för hopplösa. The aim for the study is to highlight the twelve steps usage on people without addiction problems. In the study, the two author’s thoughts and experience of the twelve-step program is analysed and interpreted by Pargaments (1997) theory of religious coping. The research questions in this study are: 1. How is the twelve-step program described by Olle Carlsson and J Keith Miller based on Pargaments theory of religious coping concerning conservation and transformation of significance? 2. How is negative and positive religious coping described from a religious coping perspective by Olle Carlsson and J Keith Miller in their books about the twelve-step program? The method used is a qualitative method with hermeneutical approach and a theory driven analyse in Template Analyse Style. The conclusions are sorted in three themes on the basis of Pargaments (1997) theory; conservation, transformation of significance and positive and negative religious coping. Placed in conservation of significance is category 2; sin, confession and forgiveness and category 3; social support because this mainly motivated people to maintain good habits. Placed in transformation of significance is category 1; admit powerless and let go. This aspect where described as important for the statement of the twelve-step program and a radical change in life. Placed in themes positive and negative religious coping is category 4; the relation to and the image of/to God or a higher power. This is because the authors highlight the important aspects of this regarding faith and that it is part of the description of positive and negative religious coping.

Abstract Med ambition att ta reda på vad i Tolvstegsprogrammet som hjälper människor till nykterhet har jag med denna studie tittat närmare på dels Tolvstegsprogrammet som metod, dels ställt det i jämförelse med Jungs och Bolwby psykologiska teorier. Resultatet visar att tolvstegsprogrammet fungerar om man kan följa de förutbestämda riktlinjerna med syfte att uppnå nykterhet. De psykologiska teorierna visar att de har beröringspunkter som kan knytas till Tolvstegsprogrammet och att dessa kan användas som förklaringsmodell för vad som fungerar i Tolvstegsprogrammet. Det finns flera samband mellan Tolvstegsprogrammet och de två psykologiska teorierna som undersöks i denna uppsatts, och likheterna är tydliga.

The integrated pedagogy in Alcoholics Anonymous as a community of practice In this paper I have studied the integrated pedagogy in Alcoholics Anonymous using Wenger’s theoretical model of communities of practice and from a point of view of situated learning. Focus has been on recovery from alcohol addiction as a process of social identity change where learning is seen as an appropriation of artefacts by an interaction between participation and reification which leads to a higher level of competence and a change in identity. A diversity of methods has been used such as text analysis of printed material from AA in combination with direct observations at AA-meetings and qualitative interviews with long-time, high intensity participants in the AA-community. The results indicate that Alcoholics Anonymous has a powerful pedagogic system in which a whole of norms, principles and stories are represented in all its parts. The interviewed participants report similar changes in identity and capacity to function in life, despite the differences between them in background as well as in which part of the specific activities in AA they focused on during their trajectory in AA. The study has limitations though all the participants are long-time sober members with a strong identification as members of AA and consequently not representative for the cohort of attenders at AA. The background search for literature makes it clear that the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is practically not studied from a pedagogical perspective which opens possibilities for future research.

Som en käftsmäll med gud – en kvalitativ studie om hur unga norrländska vuxna upplever religion i tolvstegsmetoden är en studie vars empiriska grund vilar på kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra informanter bosatta i Västernorrland, Västerbotten och Jämtlands län. Dessa har samtliga påbörjat en missbruksbehandling med hjälp av tolvstegsmetoden innan de fyllt 30 år. Tidigare forskning om religion och tolvstegsmetoden har istället fokuserat på medelålders informanter. Studiens frågeställningar granskar de unga vuxna informanternas upplevelser av de religiösa delarna av tolvstegsbehandlingen, specifikt begreppen ”högre Kraft”, ”Gud” och ”andligt uppvaknande”. Deras erfarenheter diskuteras i ljuset av tolvstegsmetodens religionshistoriska bakgrund och utifrån religionssociologen Martin Riesebrodts teorier. Genom enskilda kvalitativa livsvärldsintervjuer visar studien att informanternas ålder haft liten eller ingen påverkan på deras upplevelse av de religiösa delarna av behandlingen. Istället pekar studien på att informanternas religiösa livsåskådning och begrepp innan behandlingen har haft en mer avgörande inverkan gällande hur de reagerat på tolvstegsmetodens religiösa innehåll och funktion. Mer forskning behövs därför för att kunna belägga att det inte finns några avgörande generationsmässiga skillnader bland svenskar gällande hur missbrukare tillgodogör sig religion inom tolvstegsmetoden.

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This study examines Swedish therapists' perception of spirituality and the meaning it has forclients in the twelve step program. The following study is based on eight different qualitativeinterviews with drug and alcohol therapists at eight different private and state owned addictionfacilities in southern Sweden. The results show that the therapists view spirituality as a crucialpart in the twelve step program, as without it clients can't obtain and remain sober. Theconclusion of the study shows that by attending the twelve step program and forming apersonalized perception of spirituality, clients use the new community as a way to achieveself-awareness and find a new meaning in life. The study emphasizes that to continue being thehighly favored treatment method in southern Sweden, and the recommended program foraddiction by the social board of directors, it needs to evolve in the secular Swedish context it isused in.

This essay has a focus on self description and alcoholism as a literary function in Alex Schulman’s Glöm mig. Similarities between the book Alcoholics Anonymous (Stora Boken) and the twelve step programme (Tolvstegsprogrammet) is based on how the narrative could be characterized by the authenticity of the disease portrayal. The connection between the narrative and Alcoholics Anonymous is compared with how the main characters are portrayed and how alcoholism functions in the book. The study reveals that the story could most likely be percieved as an accurate portrayal of alcoholism as a disease, due to certain cirumstances. The connection between the testimonies of alcoholism as a disease in Alcoholics Anonymous and the narrative is an important parallel as it can strengthen the story’s credibility. It’s possible to interpret the story as a testimony from someone in close relationship to an alcoholic. An authentic story like this occurs frequently in Swedish contemporary literature and could be one of the reasons behind the novel’s commercial breakthrough. The privileged position of the author should be considered as a contributing factor leading to the positive public reactions when the novel was published. It should also be considered as having an impact on the reader’s perception of the autobiographic novel’s credibility. It’s probable that, due to these circumstances, the line between a true story and a fictional one, could be dissolved for the reader. In connection with the circumstances with Schulman’s authorship, a number of factors that may impact the reading of the book, have been presented. These are explained in comparison to other authors with similar backgrounds, who have been publishing books about similiar topics.