SOC WORK 453: Exam 2: Recovery from Addiction
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Recovery
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A process o change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.
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Recovery as context
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- Recovery is the context to achieve wellness. Not the process.
- Process = active use to stopping to staying clean to living sover
- Context = health, home, person, community
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Major dimensions that support a life in recovery
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1) Home
2) Community
3) Health
4) Sense of purpose
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Home as a dimension for recovery
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- A stable living environment
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Halfway House
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- Structured living environments that involve testing, duties, restrictions, privileges and employment
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Sober Living House
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- Structured living environment without the testing and restriction of a halfway house
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Informal arrangement
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- People that meet at a twelve step meeting looking for others to make a mutual agreement of a sober household.
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Community as a dimension of recovery
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- Relationships and social networks that provide support, friendship, love, and hope
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Health as a dimension of recovery
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Overcoming or managing one's disease, or symptoms. Making informed, healthy choices that support physical and emotional well-being.
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Sense of Purpose as a dimension of recovery
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Meaningful daily activities, such as a job, school, volunteerism, family care taking, or creative endeavors, and the independence, income, and resources to participate in society.
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Early Sobriety
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- 30 days to 1 year.
- Risk of relapse decreases exponentially after that first year though.
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Sustained Sobriety
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-1 to 5 years
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Stable Sobriety
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Greater than 5 years
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Principles of Recovery
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- Recovery emerges from hope
- Recovery is person-driven
- Recovery occurs via many pathways
- Recovery is holistic
- Recovery is supported through relationship and social networks
- Recovery is supported by addressing trauma
- Recovery involves individual, family, and community str…
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SOC WORK 453: exam 3