Focusing on the essential concepts and skills of care in addiction practice, this book serves as a foundational resource for health and social services professionals. Each chapter delves into critical knowledge areas, outlines necessary skills, and proposes topics for further exploration, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of addiction treatment and support.
Focusing on the journey of recovery, this book addresses fundamental questions surrounding addiction, relapse, and the path to healing. It presents addiction as a chronic disease influenced by genetic and environmental factors, emphasizing that relapse is a common challenge. The text promotes addiction management strategies to support sustained recovery and well-being. Structured into three parts with practical applications, it features insights from individuals in recovery and serves as a resource for both recovering individuals and addiction professionals.
Developing Competencies for Recovery aims to help people struggling with addiction realize recovery by developing core competencies that will equip, enable, and empower them to master addiction, live well, and do good.