The mobilization of community resources to support long-term addiction recovery

White, William L.

doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2008.10.006

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“…This is an important point to make as the increased focus on a recovery approach to client care and policy (Best, 2012;White, 2009) would suggest a more general switch to a 'positive' model. In psychology, this is characterised in the work of Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi (2000) on positive psychology and the more recent emergence of a 'positive criminology' movement (see Ronel & Elisha, 2011).…”

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The Well-Being of Alcohol and Other Drug Counsellors in Australia: Strengths, Risks, and Implications

Best

Savic²,

Daley³

2016

Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly

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[A head]Working with alcohol and other drug (AOD) using populations in treatment services is a demanding job that has been associated with a susceptibility to stress and burnout in the workforce. The current study used an online survey methodology in Victoria, Australia, to examine staff well-being and burnout in a cohort of 228 workers in AOD specialist services in Victoria, 151 of whom hold client caseloads. While there was a strong negative association between stress and burnout, and inverse associations with work satisfaction and well-being, the focus of the current analysis was what predicted positive well-being in workers. This was associated with four factors -lower levels of emotional exhaustion and cognitive weariness (both aspects of burnout), higher levels of opportunities for professional growth and a greater support network in the worker's own life with which to discuss things. Thus, positive well-being is not only linked to lower burnout, and to greater perceived development opportunities, but also to the support systems workers have access to.

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The Well-Being of Alcohol and Other Drug Counsellors in Australia: Strengths, Risks, and Implications

Best

Savic²,

Daley³

2016

Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly

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“…These systems transformation efforts unfolded at national, state, and local levels (see chapters in Part III of this volume) and were accompanied by efforts to define recovery [29], calls for a recovery-focused research agenda [30], and growing interest in peer-based recovery support services and new recovery support institutions (recovery community centers, recovery homes, recovery schools, recovery industries, and recovery ministries) [31,32].…”

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“…Second, there is growing awareness of the psychiatric, psychological, and social dimensions of addiction treatment and recovery, but psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers are not routinely included in addiction treatment teams, even though the role of the addiction counselor has been clinically modeled on these roles. Third, the resurgence of recovery rhetoric in addiction treatment belies the plummeting recovery representation of addiction counselors, the loss or weakening of recoveryfocused volunteer programs and alumni programs, and the weakened connections between treatment organizations and local mutual aid service committees [32]. …”

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Recovery Management: What If We Really Believed That Addiction Was a Chronic Disorder?

White

Kelly²

2010

Addiction Recovery Management

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Severe alcohol and other drug problems typically take a chronic course and often require multiple episodes of intervention before stable recovery is achieved. The conceptualization of addiction as a chronic disorder has critical implications for the design, delivery, evaluation, and funding of addiction treatment. Yet, despite widespread acknowledgement that the nature and long-term course of addiction is similar to other chronic illnesses, such as hypertension and diabetes, it is still treated almost universally as an acute condition. This acute care model has been shaped by a number of influences, including the commercialization of addiction treatment and a system of managed behavioral health care, which have forced treatment into discrete, and ever-briefer, episodes of care. In this chapter, we address the shortfalls of the acute care model and contrast it with a model of sustained recovery management, which aims to remedy the mismatch between the chronic nature of addiction and the approaches designed to treat it. The nature of Recovery Management as a philosophy of organizing addiction treatment and recovery support services to enhance early prerecovery engagement, recovery initiation, long-term recovery maintenance, and the quality of personal/family life in long-term recovery is described. The shift to a model of sustained recovery management includes changes in treatment practices related to the timing of service initiation, service access and engagement, assessment and service planning, service menu, service relationship, locus of service delivery, assertive linkage to indigenous recovery support resources, and the duration of posttreatment monitoring and support.

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“…Contemporary interventions have shifted focus to deliver communitybased recovery support to complement treatment services. It is recognised that recovery services are integral to the process of building individuals' strengths, enhancing quality of life, and providing opportunities to support people to maintain their recovery from drug and/or alcohol dependence (White et al, 2002;White 2009). …”

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“Once you’ve been there, you’re always recovering”: exploring experiences, outcomes, and benefits of substance misuse recovery

Timpson

Eckley

Sumnall

et al. 2016

Drugs and Alcohol Today

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word count (including keywords): 250 words Category: Research paperKeywords: Recovery, recovery communities, abstinence, substance misuse, social value Purpose Recovery is a central component of UK substance misuse policy, however, relatively little is known about the views and meanings of recovery by those experiencing it. This research sought to explore these factors, and understand how service user experiences align to current understandings of 'recovery capital'. Design/methodology/approachThis paper draws on qualitative interviews with 32 individuals from six UK recovery communities, including those commissioned by a statutory service (n=8) and a peer-led recovery community (n=24). FindingsMeanings of recovery differed between people in abstinence-based communities and those not; however, all had consistent views on their own recovery outcomes and the benefits they believed it brought. All viewed recovery as a process; a continuous journey with no end-point. Internal motivation, peer support, social networks and daily structure were integral to supporting individuals achieve and maintain recovery. Key benefits of recovery reflected recovery capital and included positive relationships, sense of belonging, increased self-worth and confidence, employment and education. Practical and social implicationsFrom policy and commissioning perspectives, these findings suggest benefits of recovery that were viewed by participants as indicators of success, demonstrate elements which support recovery, and highlight key social value outcomes which people attribute to recovery. These 'softer', qualitative benefits should be considered by policy-makers, commissioners, statutory and non-statutory services in order to evidence outcomes. However, it should also be recognised that a temporally static approach to assessing recovery may be in contradiction to the meaning and perspectives held by those in recovery communities who conceptualise it as long term, and ongoing process. Originality/valueThis paper adds to understandings of experiences, meanings of recovery, with a particular focus on the measurement of outcomes and their meanings, and the role of abstention and continued drug use within the recovery process.2

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The mobilization of community resources to support long-term addiction recovery

Cited by 134 publications

References 79 publications

The Well-Being of Alcohol and Other Drug Counsellors in Australia: Strengths, Risks, and Implications

The Well-Being of Alcohol and Other Drug Counsellors in Australia: Strengths, Risks, and Implications

Recovery Management: What If We Really Believed That Addiction Was a Chronic Disorder?

“Once you’ve been there, you’re always recovering”: exploring experiences, outcomes, and benefits of substance misuse recovery

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