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In the article that follows, Cloud and Granfield identified and interviewed a number of people that had recovered 'naturally', that is, without treatment or mutual support groups. These were people that were also high in recovery capital or:
"The social relations that surrounded and enveloped those in this study facilitated their recovery from addiction. Their motivations, cessation strategies, opportunities to change, and their ultimate success at recovery were largely a product of their social interactions with others and the related social capital derived from these relationships."
These are folks that, for the most part never walk through the doors of our programs or support meetings. Or if they do, they probably do very well -- they get 'it' and quickly. We may even end up being suspicious of how quickly they get it.
Recovery capital are the positives that help us through life regardless of our difficulties -- the wind at our backs as we negotiate an uncluttered downhill path. But separate and apart from the resource capital, there are the personal deficits. This article doesn't address the deficits but some that we see often are co-occurring disorders.
Here is the introduction to the article:
A Life Course Perspective on Exiting Addiction: The Relevance of Recovery Capital in Treatment
William Cloud & Robert Granfield
Introduction
Over the past several years, research on the life course has examined the pathways associated with social deviance, status mobility, and educational attainment. The life course perspective seeks to uncover the dynamics of life span trajectories as well as the transitions that occur within any given trajectory.
An important dimension of this perspective has been the recognition that continuity and change are mediated by a dynamic process whereby the interlocking nature of trajectories and transitions generates turning points in the life course (Laub & Sampson 1993). For some, turning points can be abrupt, radical turnarounds that separate the past from the future (Elder 1985). For others, and perhaps most, turning points are part of a process occurring over time.(Clausen 1990; McAdam 1989).
The life course perspective suggests that trajectories and transitions are bounded by broader social environments and social relationships. For instance, a good deal of research has found that trajectories into and out of criminal behavior are affected by the degree of social capital available to an individual. As Laub and Sampson (1993) assert, adults will be inhibited from committing crime to the extent that, over time, they accumulate social capital in their work and family lives, regardless of delinquent background. These researchers recognize that the accumulation of social capital can lead to normative systems as well as assorted resources that serve as pathways to change.
This paper adopts a life course perspective, and particularly the focus on social capital, to examine the process of natural recovery and explores the implications that natural recovery has for treatment providers.
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