Talk:Co-Dependents Anonymous

Copyright issues

The "new" version appears to contain copypasted verbatim text and excessive use of quotation which violates our copyright policy and the guidelines for the use of non-free material. The problematic material appears to come from other websites, most notably this one and this one and possibly also from print publications. Even if this were free text, the tone is unencyclopedic and largely unsuitable. It also contains original research (many references are to "Author's observation"). The article has now been reverted to a previous version. If you wish to expand or improve the article, please observe our copyright and verifiability guidelines and expand the article gradually. If mass restoration of the problematic version is attempted again, I'm afraid the entire article will have to be blanked for a full copyright investigation. Voceditenore (talk) 09:55, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Sources for improving the article

Reliable sources that can be used to expand and improve this article include

• McFadden, Dawn (5 September 1992). "Group Helps People Fight Addictions". Calhoun Times, pp. 1 – 2

• Deb M. and Katie C. (1999). Stepping Stones to Recovery from Codependency. Hazelden Publishing. ISBN 1568383754

• Whitfield, Charles L. (1991). Co-Dependence: Healing the Human Condition. HCI. ISBN 9781558741508

• Rice, John Steadman (1998). A Disease of One's Own: Psychotherapy, Addiction, and the Emergence of Co-Dependency. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0765804549

• Borovoy, Amy Beth (2005). The Too-good Wife: Alcohol, Codependency, And The Politics Of Nurturance In Postwar Japan. University of California Press. ISBN 0520244524

• Parker, Jan and Guest, Diana L. (1999). The Clinician's Guide to 12-Step Programs: How, When, and Why to Refer a Client. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0865692785

All of them have sections on this organization. Of these, the last three are more scholarly and may be particularly valuable. Voceditenore (talk) 10:45, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Sources from the further reading section

I removed the section, but some of these sources also peer-reviewed and discuss CoDA specifically.

• Irvine, L., & Klocke, B. (July 2001). "Redefining men: Alternative masculinities in a twelve-step program". Men and Masculinities. 4 (1): 27–48. doi:10.1177/1097184X01004001002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-01-03. Retrieved 2010-01-03.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Antze, P. (September 2002). "Review of - "Codependent Forevermore: The Invention of Self in a Twelve Step Group"". Transcultural Psychiatry. 39 (3): 399–401. doi:10.1177/136346150203900307.
• *Bjorklund (2000). "Book Reviews - "Codependent Forevermore: The Invention of Self in a Twelve Step Group"". American Journal of Sociology. 105 (6): 1803–5. doi:10.1086/210495.

-- Scarpy (talk) 22:24, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

formatting

I hate to come in here and immediately start making huge formatting changes, but all the content is in the lede. There even seem to be notepade-style headers using all caps. Is it safe to say we can at least move the current content accordingly and keep finessing the article? --128.83.144.242 (talk) 20:09, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Putting the basic content in the lede is what I learned when I wrote for a newspaper years ago. What is supposed to be there? And capitalized headers seems pretty common to me. Again, what is the wiki way? Jbr1970 (talk) 16:07, 22 August 2013 (UTC)8/22/13