Recovery Management and People of Color: Redesigning Addiction Treatment for Historically Disempowered Communities

Autor: Mark Sanders Lcsw, William L. White Ma, Cadc
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly. 26:365-395
ISSN: 1544-4538
0734-7324
DOI: 10.1080/07347320802072198
Popis: Communities of color have been ill-served by acute care models of treating severe alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems that define the source of these problems in idiopathic (biopsychological) terms and promote their resolution via crisis-elicited episodes of brief, individual interventions. This article explores how approaches that shift the model of intervention from acute care (AC) of individuals to a sustained recovery management (RM) partnership with individuals, families, and communities may be particularly viable for historically disempowered peoples. The advantages of the RM model for communities of color include: a broadened perspective on the etiological roots of AOD problems (including historical/cultural trauma); a focus on building vibrant cultures of recovery within which individual recoveries can be anchored and nourished; a proactive, hope-based approach to recovery engagement; the inclusion of indigenous healers and institutions with the RM team; an expanded menu of recovery sup...
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