Barriers and Unmet Needs
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One of the critical features of a recovery-oriented approach is the transition from a deficits model to a strengths approach (White and Cloud, 2008). The concept of recovery capital is based on the notion that we assess the individual’s personal, social, and community resources to gauge their support system.
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David Best, PhD, is professor and director of the Centre for Addiction Recovery Research (CARR) at Leeds Trinity University, honorary professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at The Australian National University, and honorary associate professor in Eastern Health Clinical School at Monash University in Melbourne. He is also president of the Recovery Outcomes Institute in Florida. Dr. Best has published more than 230 peer-reviewed papers in the areas of substance use, offending, and recovery as well as eight authored or edited books and special issues and more than seventy book chapters and technical reports. His primary area of work is around recovery and specifically recovery capital.
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