Peer Help Groups: Recovery Groups

Monday, September 26, 2005

Recovery Groups

Well, if you've been to the site recently you may have noticed a change. If you don't frequent our site, then there might still be some helpful information in this. We've disabled the Recovery Groups. Our on-line support groups for addiction recovery didn't elicite as much continued activity as we had hoped for. They were created nicely with complete anonymity and what I thought was a nice format to read through everyone's postings. We kept it limited to four people in each group and they were divided up according to their addiction/struggle. Well, after a good first time posting and a not so good response rate, most people didn't come back. So, we're not scrapping the project, because I believe that it still has merit. We'll roll out Version 2 as soon as it's finished. Here are some changes we're considering: a mentor/moderator in each group will facilitate discussion each week on a reading from the Resources section that deals with that addiction, groups will hold up to eight people instead of four, and we'll have the ability to remove an individual if they choose to no longer participate. This is still in the workings, but any comments you have on these ideas would be appreciated. You can view the old recovery group format by following links from "What is this?" under "Addiction Recovery." If anyone has experienced success in on-line recovery groups, we'd like to hear about it.

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Have you tried consulting with someone on the cleanlds site? They do e-mail groups for pornography addicts and spouses of addicts. I was on the spouse group and there were about fifty (I think) of us on the e-mail group list; but sometimes only somewhere between 8 and 20 of us posted regularly. That way, no one felt obligated to post if they didn't feel comfortable doing so: but there was a big enough pool of people to draw from that there wasn't a problem with not enough posts.

I know they make a point of separating the addicts from the spouses, or at least make a point of separating the sexes.

I'm pretty sure the site is www.cleanlds.org

Hope that helps. Thanks for what you're doing :0)
 
Thanks, I've visited CleanLDS and have used them as a resource, but never interacted with someone from that site. I'll have to contact them and I'll let you know what they say.
 
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