4. Dimensions
Health – Overcoming or managing one’s disease(s)through
abstinence – as well as living in a physically and emotionally
healthy way.
Home – A stable and safe place to live.
Purpose – Meaningful daily activities, such as a job, school,
volunteerism, family caretaking, or creative endeavors, and the
independence, income, and resources to participate in society.
Community – Relationships and social networks that provide
support, friendship, love, and hope.
5. Four Dimensions of Recovery
Individuals
and Families
HOME
Permanent
Housing
COMMUNITY
Peer/Family/
Recovery Network
Supports
PURPOSE
Employment/
Education
HEALTH
Recovery
Health
Wellness
7. Guiding Principles: Recovery
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Has many pathways.
Is self-directed and empowering.
Involves a personal recognition of
the need for change and
transformation.
Is holistic.
Has cultural dimensions.
Exists on a continuum of improved
health and wellness.
Emerges from hope and gratitude.
Involves a process of healing self-
redefinition.
Involves addressing discrimination
and transcending shame and
stigma.
Is supported by peers and allies.
Involves (re)joining and (re)building
a life in the community.
Is a Reality.
8. Spectrum of AttitudesFrom Discovering the Meaning of Prevention:A PracticalApproach to Positive Change
ByWilliam A. Lofquist
The Spectrum of Attitudes focuses on the nature and quality of relationships between and among people.The three attitudes
making up the spectrum might prevail in any kind of relationship – between parent and child, between manager and subordinate,
between teacher and student, between elected officials and citizens, between husband and wife.
PeopleViewed as Objects:
The basis of this attitude is that one person or group of people “ knows what’s best” for another person or group of people. Or the
first person or group may decide they have a right to determine the circumstances under which the second person or group will
exist. The person being viewed and treated as an object usually knows it.
People viewed as Recipients
Here is an attitude of respect by the first person or group toward what the other person or group can do. This attitude and the
behaviors that follow it can be closely associated with two members of great concern: self-esteem and productivity. Creating a
culture in which people are viewed as resources is a worthy goal.
1. Discuss with the group one time where you felt you were viewed as an object? How did you feel?
2. Discuss with the group one time where you felt you were viewed as a recipient? How did you feel?
3. Discuss with the group one time where you felt you were viewed as a resource? How did you feel?
9. Labels
Words shape perceptions.The language we use to describe
a person is powerful.The words we use, even with good
intention, have the ability to cause the opposite effect.
Use person first language -
14. The First Year of
Recovery
Eight Basic Universal Problems
Adapted from P. Carnes re: Sex Addiction
Editor's Notes
Transition – Strategies for repairing, reconnecting, and reconciliation.
As mentors, besides understanding what recovery is, what it looks like on a college campus, and the important role you play when relating to others on the recovery path, it’s important to understand some factors that might complicate a person’s health and wellness. We are going to look at these factors through having special presentations by a variety of people who focus on the particular topic. After reviewing briefly what some of these topics are we will focus on trauma and SAMHSA’s Principles for being “trauma-informed” in an agency and in our relating.
Thanks to SAMHSA for their work in this
