ELEMENTS OF CHANGE

v    Because ambivalence to change maintains the disease process, books, tapes, and didactic lectures help reveal unconscious psychological conflicts that retard progress.

v    Cognitive behavior therapy teaches more appropriate ways of thinking about conflicts.

v    Fellowship—developing friends who model appropriate behavior helps generate change.

v    Spiritual transformation provides love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.