The Use Of Storytelling In Recovery For College Students With Substance Use Disorders

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The Use of Storytelling in Recovery for College Students with Substance Use Disorders

Author : Rachel Pearl Wulbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Use of Storytelling in Recovery for College Students with Substance Use Disorders written by Rachel Pearl Wulbert and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Substance use on college campuses has received increasing attention in higher education research, with a particular focus on collegiate recovery. However, there is a lack of research in the area of storytelling. Research has shown that storytelling could be utilized with other populations as a modality to treat trauma, promote academic persistence, and enhance student connection. While research has begun to address the experiences of students in recovery as a distinct population, few researchers have addressed their unique identities and experiences as a student in higher education. Thus, this study begins to address a need for empirical research on the identities of these students and interventions that could enhance their academic experiences. The number of adults and college students that self-report substance abuse concerns subsequently receiving a substance use disorder diagnosis is increasing. These findings indicate that it is imperative for colleges and universities to have a clearer understanding of the unique needs and challenges of this population as well as promising interventions for reducing substance us and increasing class attendance, GPA, retention and graduation. The purpose of this study is to examine how storytelling shaped the meaning of the sobriety and identity among adults with substance use disorders, as well as identify variables that predict outcomes that strengthen long-term recovery.

Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309439124
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the most highly stigmatized health conditions in the United States, and they remain barriers to full participation in society in areas as basic as education, housing, and employment. Improving the lives of people with mental health and substance abuse disorders has been a priority in the United States for more than 50 years. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 is considered a major turning point in America's efforts to improve behavioral healthcare. It ushered in an era of optimism and hope and laid the groundwork for the consumer movement and new models of recovery. The consumer movement gave voice to people with mental and substance use disorders and brought their perspectives and experience into national discussions about mental health. However over the same 50-year period, positive change in American public attitudes and beliefs about mental and substance use disorders has lagged behind these advances. Stigma is a complex social phenomenon based on a relationship between an attribute and a stereotype that assigns undesirable labels, qualities, and behaviors to a person with that attribute. Labeled individuals are then socially devalued, which leads to inequality and discrimination. This report contributes to national efforts to understand and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that can lead to stigma and discrimination. Changing stigma in a lasting way will require coordinated efforts, which are based on the best possible evidence, supported at the national level with multiyear funding, and planned and implemented by an effective coalition of representative stakeholders. Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies for reducing stigma and encouraging people to seek treatment and other supportive services. It offers a set of conclusions and recommendations about successful stigma change strategies and the research needed to inform and evaluate these efforts in the United States.

Voices of Recovery from the Campus

Author : Lisa Laitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781514659120
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Voices of Recovery from the Campus written by Lisa Laitman and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like for people in their early teens and twenties to try to achieve sobriety? What are the life situations that they face that are different than if they began their journeys to sobriety later in life? And what happens as their lives unfold over the years? To answer these and other questions, the editors of Voices of Recovery from the Campus put together a collection of 12 stories written by college students and alumni of Rutgers University who began their recovery in college. Like all recovery stories, they are the personal journeys of very different people who struggle with the same issue: how to live life without drinking? What makes them unique is that their drinking often began long before they were legally able to drink, and so did their sobriety. Each story is different from the others in the details of the person's life and circumstances, yet what they have in common is that each story captures what it was like to struggle with alcoholism, what happened to motivate the person to stop drinking and what it is like now as a sober person. The editors think of the book as the Little Book, a contemporary set of stories about young people getting sober, what it took and the joyous lives they have now that they are free of alcoholism. It is a book of stories, told in the words of each person who lived the experience. A book that shows the pain, embarrassment, suffering, and the struggles and victories with sobriety, and the honesty and humor with which these recovering alcoholics look back on themselves, their experiences and their great good fortunate in getting sober and staying sober. Voices of Recovery from the Campus shows that alcoholism affects people as early in life as their teen years and that there is always hope. It shows how college students who wanted to get sober and stay sober actually did to replace drinking with a life free from alcohol. For example, readers get to see what it was like for a woman who came from a large family and started drinking with friends in her early teens. For her, college was a time of good grades and lots of drinking until she found AA and what she calls a "new happiness and new freedom." They meet the man who was outgoing and active, and who fellow students and professors loved. On the outside, he looked like what every college student should be. While on the inside he struggled with his drinking and how it made him feel about himself. Readers meet the woman who grew up knowing about AA since her mother was sober in AA but discovered her own need for alcohol, anyway. They learn that she had to find her own way to face her own alcoholism when she got to college. They get to read what it was like for the man who admits he was lonely and drank to feel better. "I wasn't the coolest guy when I drank," he recounts, and tells what happens when at 19, he decided to stop and found recovery. And they read of the woman who admitted that her ritual was to drink, pass out, wake up, and drink who learn that for her, "school was a blur that I just got through."These are the recovering alcoholics' stories, and they should be told-not because they are particularly dramatic, but because they are stories of ordinary people who did extraordinary things as they fought their addiction and found their recovery from a disease that takes more lives than it spares.

Approaches to Substance Abuse and Addiction in Education Communities

Author : Jeffrey Roth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131799390X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Substance Abuse and Addiction in Education Communities written by Jeffrey Roth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to increase the awareness among mental health professionals and educators about the potential sources of support for students struggling with substance abuse, addiction and compulsive behaviors. The book includes a description of the scope of the problem of substance abuse in high schools and colleges, followed by sections describing recovery high schools and collegiate recovery communities. A further unique component of this book is the inclusion of material from the adolescents and young adults whose lives have been changed by these programs. This book was published as a special issue in the Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery.

Alcohol, Tobacco, Drugs

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Perfection Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780789164414
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Alcohol, Tobacco, Drugs written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to the harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs.

Substance Abuse Recovery in College

Author : H. Harrington Cleveland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781461425861
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Substance Abuse Recovery in College written by H. Harrington Cleveland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Substance Abuse Recovery in College explains in authoritative detail what collegiate recovery communities are, the types of services they provide, and their role in the context of campus life, with extended examples from Texas Tech University’s influential CSAR (Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery) program. Using data from both conventional surveys and end-of-day daily Palm Pilot assessments as well as focus groups, the book examines community members’ experiences. In addition, the importance of a positive relationship between the recovery community and the school administration is emphasized. Topics covered include: The growing need for recovery services at colleges. How recovery communities support abstinence and relapse prevention. Who are community members and their addiction and treatment histories. Daily lives of young adults in a collegiate recovery community. Challenges and opportunities in establishing recovery communities on campus. Building abstinence support into an academic curriculum. This volume offers clear insights and up-close perspectives of importance to developmental and clinical child psychologists, social workers, higher education policymakers, and related professionals in human development, family studies, student services, college health care, and community services.

The Little Book of College Sobriety

Author : Susan Packard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735258584
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book The Little Book of College Sobriety written by Susan Packard and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of Addiction and Inspiration for Recovery

Author : Barbara Sinor
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
ISBN 13 : 1615990372
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Addiction and Inspiration for Recovery written by Barbara Sinor and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This inspiring and penetrating new book by Dr. Sinor shows how we gather the courage and the force of will to make a transformational change."--Mark Thurston, Ph.D.

Narrative Means to Sober Ends

Author : Jonathan Diamond
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1462506070
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Means to Sober Ends written by Jonathan Diamond and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with clients who abuse drugs or alcohol poses formidable challenges to the clinician. Addicted persons are often confronting multiple, complex problems, from the denial of the addiction itself, to legacies of early trauma or abuse, to histories of broken relationships with parents, spouses, and children. Making matters more confusing, the treatment field is too often splintered into different approaches, each with its own competing claims. This eloquently written book proposes a narrative approach that builds a much-needed bridge between family therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and addictions counseling. Demonstrated are innovative, flexible ways to help clients form new understandings of what has happened in their lives, explore their relationships to drugs and alcohol, and develop new stories to guide and nourish their recovery.

TIP 35: Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Use Disorder Treatment (Updated 2019)

Author : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1794755136
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book TIP 35: Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Use Disorder Treatment (Updated 2019) written by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivation is key to substance use behavior change. Counselors can support clients' movement toward positive changes in their substance use by identifying and enhancing motivation that already exists. Motivational approaches are based on the principles of person-centered counseling. Counselors' use of empathy, not authority and power, is key to enhancing clients' motivation to change. Clients are experts in their own recovery from SUDs. Counselors should engage them in collaborative partnerships. Ambivalence about change is normal. Resistance to change is an expression of ambivalence about change, not a client trait or characteristic. Confrontational approaches increase client resistance and discord in the counseling relationship. Motivational approaches explore ambivalence in a nonjudgmental and compassionate way.

The Urge

Author : Carl Erik Fisher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525561455
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Urge written by Carl Erik Fisher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction—a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives—by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself “Carl Erik Fisher’s The Urge is the best-written and most incisive book I’ve read on the history of addiction. In the midst of an overdose crisis that grows worse by the hour and has vexed America for centuries, Fisher has given us the best prescription of all: understanding. He seamlessly blends a gripping historical narrative with memoir that doesn’t self-aggrandize; the result is a full-throated argument against blaming people with substance use disorder. The Urge is a propulsive tour de force that is as healing as it is enjoyable to read.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, intense controversy still rages over the fundamental nature of addiction and the best way to treat it. With uncommon empathy and erudition, Carl Erik Fisher draws on his own experience as a clinician, researcher, and alcoholic in recovery as he traces the history of a phenomenon that, centuries on, we hardly appear closer to understanding—let alone addressing effectively. As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Fisher was soon face-to-face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of the condition that had plagued his family for generations, he turned to the history of addiction, learning that the current quagmire is only the latest iteration of a centuries-old story: humans have struggled to define, treat, and control addictive behavior for most of recorded history, including well before the advent of modern science and medicine. A rich, sweeping account that probes not only medicine and science but also literature, religion, philosophy, and public policy, The Urge illuminates the extent to which the story of addiction has persistently reflected broader questions of what it means to be human and care for one another. Fisher introduces us to the people who have endeavored to address this complex condition through the ages: physicians and politicians, activists and artists, researchers and writers, and of course the legions of people who have struggled with their own addictions. He also examines the treatments and strategies that have produced hope and relief for many people with addiction, himself included. Only by reckoning with our history of addiction, he argues—our successes and our failures—can we light the way forward for those whose lives remain threatened by its hold. The Urge is at once an eye-opening history of ideas, a riveting personal story of addiction and recovery, and a clinician’s urgent call for a more expansive, nuanced, and compassionate view of one of society’s most intractable challenges.

Facing Addiction in America

Author : Office of the Surgeon General
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781974580620
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Facing Addiction in America written by Office of the Surgeon General and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All across the United States, individuals, families, communities, and health care systems are struggling to cope with substance use, misuse, and substance use disorders. Substance misuse and substance use disorders have devastating effects, disrupt the future plans of too many young people, and all too often, end lives prematurely and tragically. Substance misuse is a major public health challenge and a priority for our nation to address. The effects of substance use are cumulative and costly for our society, placing burdens on workplaces, the health care system, families, states, and communities. The Report discusses opportunities to bring substance use disorder treatment and mainstream health care systems into alignment so that they can address a person's overall health, rather than a substance misuse or a physical health condition alone or in isolation. It also provides suggestions and recommendations for action that everyone-individuals, families, community leaders, law enforcement, health care professionals, policymakers, and researchers-can take to prevent substance misuse and reduce its consequences.

College Drinking and Drug Use

Author : Helene Raskin White
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1606239953
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book College Drinking and Drug Use written by Helene Raskin White and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Substance use among college students can result in serious academic and safety problems and have long-term negative repercussions. This state-of-the-art volume draws on the latest research on students' alcohol and drug use to provide useful suggestions for how to address this critical issue on college campuses. Leading researchers from multiple disciplines examine the prevalence and nature of substance use by students; biological and neuropsychological considerations; psychological and social aspects; prevention; and policy. Exemplary programs are presented -- including brief interventions, comprehensive prevention programs, and recovery support programs -- enhancing the utility of the book for campus-based clinicians and administrators. This title is part of The Duke Series in Child Development and Public Policy, edited by Kenneth A. Dodge and Martha Putallaz.

Voices of Recovery

Author : Kelly Moore Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Voices of Recovery written by Kelly Moore Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Researchers have estimated that on any given college campus, 4% of students are in recovery from alcohol and/or other drug addiction (Harris, Baker, & Thompson, 2005). Over the past several years, Collegiate Recovery Programs (CRPs) and Collegiate Recovery Communities (CRCs) have started to become more widespread, focusing on the welfare of those students who identify as being in recovery from alcohol and/or other drug addiction. Despite the growing number of CRPs/CRCs in the country, many students have reported that the negative stigma associated with substance use disorders (SUDs) has stopped them from utilizing these recovery-based services (Mackert, Mabry, Hubbard, Grahovac, & Holleran Steiker, 2014). Although this statement has not yet been supported by empirical evidence, the effects of stigma on students seeking mental health services have been demonstrated. In fact, stigma has been identified as one of the greatest barriers to seeking mental health services for college students (Martin, 2010). It is also noteworthy that several studies have shown that substance use disorders are viewed as more stigmatized than any other mental health disorder (Corrigan, Kuwabara, & O'Shaughnessy, 2009; Livingston, Milne, Fang, & Amari, 2011; Room, 2005; Schomerus et al., 2011). The purpose of this study was to fill this gap in the literature by exploring the stigma experienced by college students in recovery from alcohol and/or other drug addiction. The researcher conducted a qualitative research study using Photovoice methodology to gain an in-depth, foundational understanding of how stigma was experienced by the participants involved in the study. Wang and Burris (1997), the founders of Photovoice, stated that this approach may be "particularly powerful for . . .people with socially stigmatized health conditions or status" (p. 370). Participants in this study included undergraduate college students who self-identified as being in recovery from alcohol and/or other drug addiction. They were asked to take photographs that represented their experiences of stigma and to answer questions related to the portrayal of these experiences. The participants then shared and discussed these photographs in a focus group. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analyze the data. Participants identified several common themes that were present in both the focus group discussions and the photographs. These themes were then placed into categories and mapped onto Frost's (2011) model of social stigma in order to create a conceptual framework for understanding how college students in recovery from alcohol and/or other drug addiction experience stigma. The categories include: sources of stigma, experiences of stigma, consequences of stigma, coping and support strategies and intersectionality. Finally, implications for practice and research are discussed."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.

Saving Sara

Author : Sara Somers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631528475
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Saving Sara written by Sara Somers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly fifty years, Sara Somers suffered from untreated food addiction. In this brutally honest and intimate memoir, Somers offers readers an inside view of a food addict’s mind, showcasing her experiences of obsessive cravings, compulsivity, and powerlessness regarding food. Saving Sara chronicles Somers’s addiction from childhood to adulthood, beginning with abnormal eating as a nine-year-old. As her addiction progresses in young adulthood, she becomes isolated, masking her shame and self-hatred with drugs and alcohol. Time and again, she rationalizes why this time will be different, only to have her physical cravings lead to ever-worse binges, to see her promises of doing things differently next time broken, and to experience the amnesia that she—like every addict—experiences when her obsession sets in again. Even after Somers is introduced to the solution that will eventually end up saving her, the strength of her addiction won’t allow her to accept her disease. Twenty-six more years pass until she finally crawls on hands and knees back to that solution, and learns to live life on life’s terms. A raw account of Somers’s decades-long journey, Saving Sara underscores the challenges faced by food addicts of any age—and the hope that exists for them all.

Pregame

Author : Margaret King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781641378222
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Pregame written by Margaret King and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug overdose is the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50. Addiction is a disease, not a moral failing and it affects 1 out of 8 American adults. Pregame is a young woman's perspective of addiction in the United States. King shares her experience and observations through her personal story, the stories of others in recovery, and policy issues in the U.S. that prevent addressing addiction in a productive manner. The book speaks to the recovery community as well as politicians and lawmakers that have the authority to empower stories of survival, using them to inspire change. In this book, you'll learn about addiction and recovery in America, including: A personal story of recovery An account of addiction throughout the city of Philadelphia Inspiring stories of young people in recovery from drugs and alcohol This book was written for those suffering or who have suffered through addiction, for those whose loved one's have met with irreversible consequences, or for those who seek to understand the truth behind addiction and what it entails.

Saving Jake

Author : D'Anne Burwell
Publisher : Focusup Books
ISBN 13 : 9780996254304
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Saving Jake written by D'Anne Burwell and published by Focusup Books. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D'Anne Burwell's smart, athletic son-raised in a loving and prosperous home-begins abusing OxyContin as a teenager, and within a year drops out of college, walks out of rehab, and lands homeless on the streets of Boulder. Struggling with fear, guilt, and a desperate need to protect her son, D'Anne grapples with her husband's anger and her daughter's depression as the family disease of addiction impacts them all. She discovers the terrifying links between prescription-drug abuse and skyrocketing heroin use. And she comes to understand that to save her child she must step back and allow him to fight for his own soul. SAVING JAKE gives voice to the devastation shared by the families of addicts, and provides vital hope. Above all, it is a powerful personal story of love and redemption.