Pathways to Recovery: A Strengths Recovery Self-Help Workbook

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Since peer-led initiatives are made up of people who have followed different routes into recovery, they recognise and respect each person’s journey. Complementary to treatment The lived experience leaders who co-developed this guidance describe peer-led initiatives as having the following features. Led by and for people with lived experience FAVOR UK runs an ARCO with a network of RCO members in the UK and has developed a toolkit to support people setting up RCOs. The UK ARCO identifies the core principles of an RCO as follows.

Healthy environments can include a person’s home and other places where they spend their time. Someone in recovery can improve their wellbeing and increase their recovery capital if they: In this guidance, we describe any service and support which people with lived and living experience are involved in delivering or leading as lived experience initiatives. Where a treatment (or other service) provider employs peer workers or volunteers, we describe the services or support they offer as peer-delivered. We describe the services and support provided by a LERO as peer-led. Living experience and lived experience Recovery coach— a life coach specifically focused on serving as a mentor for the lifestyle changes required for overcoming addiction In peer support groups, people can help each other to sustain their individual recovery and strengthen their sense of purpose and direction. This can happen informally and organically with friends and family members, or formally through projects or services as volunteers or workers (Humphreys, 2004). Engaging in meaningful activity Dotted lines between the specialist and non-specialist services are used to represent the need for interconnectivity between all services that can play a key role in supporting someone to reduce harm and recover from problem alcohol and drug use. How the wider community can promote recoveryBehavioral therapy : Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, behavioral couples therapy, and family therapy.

Group therapy—many varieties, some serving special populations such as students or executives, often adapting skills and strategies of cognitive and behavioral therapy Language used to describe terms related to lived experience can be inconsistent and confusing. So we have defined 2 main relevant terms below. Other terms used in this guidance are defined in the glossary. Lived experience initiatives Granfield R and Cloud W. Coming clean: Overcoming addiction without treatment. New York University Press, 1999.Clinical treatment : Medically managed inpatient treatment, clinically managed residential services, intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization, and outpatient services. This relationship between treatment and recovery services will often blur the boundaries of operation. For example, there will be times when a treatment worker will carry out significant recovery support work as part of a person’s treatment and recovery care plan and that person has no wish to engage with RSS. Similarly, RSS and lived experience initiatives can play a vital role in providing harm reduction services to vulnerable people who are not accessing treatment. There are pathways to recovery that do not involve treatment services at all. The distinct and shared roles of specialist services in delivering recovery-oriented care Rather than focusing on alcohol and drug use or treatment outcomes, peer-led initiatives focus on supporting personal growth. This includes: