Celebrate Recovery
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Celebrate Recovery is an American Christian twelve-step program designed to facilitate recovery from a wide variety of troubling behavior patterns. The global headquarters is in Lake Forest, California, United States.
History
The organization was founded in 1991 by John Baker, a former alcoholic staff member of Saddleback Church with the support of Pastor Rick Warren.[1] John Baker served as the primary author of The Celebrate Recovery curriculum and materials. In 2004, the program was approved by the California Department of Corrections and entered prisons.[2] In 2020, the organization was present in 10 countries around the world.[3]
Programs
Celebrate Recovery is a recovery program aimed at all "hurts, habits, and hang-ups", including but not exclusive to: high anxiety; co-dependency; compulsive behaviors; sex addiction; financial dysfunction; drug and alcohol addictions; and eating disorders.Template:Sfn Celebrate Recovery is one of the seven largest addiction recovery support group programs.Template:Sfn Promotional materials assert that over 5 million people have participated in a Celebrate Recovery step study in over 35,000 churches.[4][5] Leaders seek to normalize substance abuse as similar to other personal problems common to all people.[6]
Methods
Celebrate Recovery uses both the 12 steps developed by Alcoholics Anonymous and a very similar set of eight sequential principles that are understood as a lesson of Jesus' Beatitudes.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn In addition to issue non-specific large group gatherings and individual mentoring, Celebrate Recovery encourages participants to form a small group of "accountability partners" who all have the same problem and support one another closely.Template:Sfn Celebrate Recovery groups are held under the management of local church organizations.[7] A study of Celebrate Recovery participants published in 2011 by the Journal of Religion and Health, found that levels of spirituality were associated with greater confidence to resist substance use.Template:Sfn Celebrate Recovery has not been significantly studied, so there is no empirical evidence regarding the impacts or efficacy of the Celebrate Recovery program.Template:Sfn
Program fidelity constraints
The name Celebrate Recovery is a registered trademark of John Baker,[8] and the national Celebrate Recovery organization requires that groups using this name hold closely to a standardized format.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn They may not use resources outside of the Bible and authorized Celebrate Recovery curriculum materials.[9] Group facilitators must be trained and agree to a list of expectations,Template:Sfn including standardized guidelines[10][11] at each meeting.[9]
See also
- Addiction recovery groups
- List of twelve-step groups
- Recovery model
- Self-help groups for mental health
Notes
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- ↑ Kate Shellnutt, How Celebrate Recovery Helped Evangelicals Open Up About Addiction, christianitytoday.com, USA, August 12, 2016
- ↑ John Leland, Offering Ministry, and Early Release, to Prisoners, nytimes.com, USA, June 10, 2004
- ↑ CR, International Celebrate Recovery, celebraterecovery.com, USA, retrieved November 5, 2022
- ↑ CR, About, celebraterecovery.com, USA, retrieved November 5, 2022
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Alcoholics and drug addicts make up only 30% of Celebrate Recovery's membership
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"We are all broken," program founder John Baker says. "We have all sinned. We have all missed the mark. We are all struggling with a hurt, habit or hang-up."
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Celebrate Recovery... function[s] under the auspices of formal church organizations.
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References
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- Baker, John. Stepping out of Denial into God's Grace: Participant's Guide, 1. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998. Print.
- Baker, John, and Richard Warren. Taking an Honest and Spiritual Inventory: Participant's Guide 2: A Recovery Program Based on Eight Principles from the Beatitudes. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1998. Print.
- Baker, John, and Richard Warren. Celebrate Recovery: Getting Right with God, Yourself, and Others: Participant Guide, 3. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1998. Print.
- Baker, John, and Richard Warren. Celebrate Recovery: Growing in Christ While Helping Others: Participant Guide 4. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1998. Print.
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- Baker, John. Your First Step to Celebrate Recovery: How God Can Heal Your Life. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2012. Print.
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Further reading
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- Spriggs, J. David, and Eric Sloter. "Counselor-Clergy Collaboration in a Church-based Counseling Ministry." Journal of Psychology & Christianity 22.4 (2003).