RUNNING HEAD SUPPORT GROUPS

Support Group Report Grand Canyon University Sarah Lawson April 3, 2018 PCN 501

Introduction This paper will report an observation of attending an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) support group meetings. The support group was an open meeting, meaning members usually leave and join periodically (Jacobs, Schimmel, Masson, and Harvill (2016, p. 50). Each member shared the commonality of using and abusing alcohol. Jacobs et al., (2016) discussed the importance of looking out for lack of commonality between support group members (p. 43). The support group that I attended utilized the twelve steps to recovery and it is assumed that most AA meetings do the same. I would assume that each support group meeting is conducted and facilitated differently and...