Editing Codependency (section)

==Recovery and prognosis==
With no consensus as to how codependency should be defined, and with no recognized diagnostic criteria, mental health professionals hold a range of opinions about the diagnosis and treatment of codependency.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1300/J023v03n03_05 |title=On Terms Used and Abused: The Concept of 'Codependency' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fjyJ3QWJgPQC&pg=PA113 |year=1989 |last1=Gomberg |first1=Edith S Lisansky |editor1-first=Edith S |editor1-last=Gomberg |journal=Drugs & Society |volume=3 |issue=3–4 |pages=113–132 |isbn=978-0-86656-965-1|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Caring for an individual with a physical addiction is not necessarily a pathology. The caregiver may benefit from [[assertiveness]] skills and the ability to place responsibility for the addiction on the other.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Abadi |first1=Fatemeh |last2=Vand |first2=Mosomeh |last3=Aghaee |first3=Hakimeh |title=Models and interventions of codependency treatment, systematic review |journal=UMP Social Sciences and Technology Management |date=2015 |volume=3 |issue=2 |page=574}}</ref>

Individuals who struggle with codependency may benefit from [[psychotherapy]], including [[cognitive behavioral therapy]] and [[mindfulness]] practices.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Akila |first1=N |last2=Jeyalakshmi |first2=S |last3=Therese |first3=P |title=Codependency: An Introduction |journal=International Journal of Science Academic Research |date=February 2024 |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=6972–6975}}</ref>

Many self-help guides have been written on the subject of codependency.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gemin |first1=Joseph |title=Manufacturing codependency: Self-help as discursive formation |journal=Critical Studies in Mass Communication |date=September 1997 |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=249–266 |doi=10.1080/15295039709367014}}</ref> Self-help groups such as [[Co-Dependents Anonymous]] (CoDA), [[Al-Anon/Alateen]], [[Nar-Anon]], and [[Adult Children of Alcoholics]] (ACoA), which are based on the [[twelve-step program]] model of Alcoholics Anonymous, or [[Celebrate Recovery]], a Christian twelve-step, Bible-based group, also provide support for recovery from codependency.<ref name="COLLET1990">{{cite journal |last=Collet |first=L |year=1990 |title=After the anger, what then? ACOA: Self-help or self-pity? |journal=Family Therapy Networker |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=22–31}}</ref>