Substance Abuse Recovery in College: Community Supported Abstinence

172 Pages·2010·1.4 MB·English

Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development
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IndianaUniversity,Bloomington,IN,U.S.A.
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H. Harrington Cleveland Kitty S. Harris
Richard P. Wiebe
Editors
Substance Abuse Recovery
in College
Community Supported Abstinence
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Editors
H.HarringtonCleveland KittyS.Harris
DepartmentofHumanDevelopment& TexasTechUniversity
FamilyStudies CenterfortheStudyofAddiction
andRecovery
PennsylvaniaStateUniversity
LubbockTX79409
UniversityParkPA16802
Box41162
USA USA
[email protected] [email protected]
RichardP.Wiebe
DepartmentofBehavioralSciences
FitchburgStateCollege
160PearlStreet
FitchburgMA01420
USA
[email protected]
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Preface
Morethan80%ofcollegestudentsaredrinking.Morethanathirddodrugs.Forstu-
dents struggling with substance abuse, temptations on campus—and stressors that
canderailabstinence—runhigh.Inresponse,severalcollegesanduniversitiesoffer
effective support in the form of recovery communities, which are more appropri-
atetocampussettingsandyoungadultdevelopmentthantraditional12-stepgroups
alone.
SubstanceAbuseRecoveryinCollegeexplainsinauthoritativedetailwhatcolle-
giaterecoverycommunitiesare,thetypesofservicestheyprovide,andtheirrolein
the context of campus life, with extended examples from Texas Tech University’s
influentialCSAR(CenterfortheStudyofAddictionandRecovery)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,theimportanceofapositiverelationshipbetweentherecoverycommunity
andtheschooladministrationisemphasized.
Topicscoveredinclude:
• Thegrowingneedforrecoveryservicesatcolleges.
• Howrecoverycommunitiessupportabstinenceandrelapseprevention.
• Whoarecommunitymembersandtheiraddictionandtreatmenthistories.
• Dailylivesofyoungadultsinacollegiaterecoverycommunity.
• Challengesandopportunitiesinestablishingrecoverycommunitiesoncampus.
• Buildingabstinencesupportintoanacademiccurriculum.
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,
studentservices,collegehealthcare,andcommunityservices.
UniversityPark,Pennsylvania H.HarringtonCleveland
Lubbock,Texas KittyS.Harris
Fitchburg,Massachusetts RichardP.Wiebe
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Acknowledgments
The editors and authors of this volume acknowledge the support of the College
of Human Sciences at Texas Tech University, which provided funding for much
of the research presented herein. Specifically, we would like to thank Dean Linda
Hoover,whohelpedDr.ClevelandacquirethePalmPilotsusedtocollectthedata
used for Chapter 6. We wish to thank Dr. Evelyn Moser for her reading and com-
menting on early drafts of the chapters. In addition, it should be noted that the
data presented in Chapter 4 includes research that has been published in the
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. The full cite to the original research arti-
cleisCleveland,H.H.,Harris,K.S.,Baker,A.,Herbert,R.,&Dean,L.R.(2007).
CharacteristicsofaCollegiateRecoveryCommunity:SafeHaveninanAbstinence
Hostile Collegiate Environment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 33, 13–
23. The Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment has approved the republishing of
these data. It should also be acknowledged that Chapter 8, Building Support for
RecoveryintoanAcademicCurriculum:StudentReflectionsontheValueofStaff
Run Seminars, is the result of a Program Evaluation course facilitated by the sec-
ondauthor,MiriamMulsow,Ph.D.WerespectfullythankDianeOliver,Ph.D.,who
assisted in the evaluation. We also thank students of the class listed above whose
hard work and dedication contributed to the evaluation: Gail Bentley, Augustina
Brooks,HollyFollmer,JanisHenderson,GregJohnston,andYingliLi.
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Contents
1 TheNeedforCollegeRecoveryServices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
RichardP.Wiebe,H.HarringtonCleveland,andKittyS.Harris
2 CollegiateRecoveryCommunities:WhatTheyAreandHow
TheySupportRecovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
KittyS.Harris,AmandaBaker,andH.HarringtonCleveland
3 FacilitatingIdentityDevelopmentinCollegiateRecovery:
AnEriksonianPerspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
MatthewRussell,H.HarringtonCleveland,andRichardP.Wiebe
4 CharacteristicsofCollegiateRecoveryCommunityMembers . . . . 37
H.HarringtonCleveland,AmandaBaker,andLukasR.Dean
5 MaintainingAbstinenceinCollege:TemptationsandTactics . . . . . 57
RichardP.Wiebe,H.HarringtonCleveland,andLukasR.Dean
6 DailyLivesofYoungAdultMembersofaCollegiateRecovery
Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
H.HarringtonClevelandandAllisonGroenendyk
7 HowMembershipintheCollegiateRecoveryCommunity
MaximizesSocialSupportforAbstinenceandReducesRisk
ofRelapse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
H.HarringtonCleveland,RichardP.Wiebe,andJacquelynD.Wiersma
8 BuildingSupportforRecoveryintoanAcademicCurriculum:
StudentReflectionsontheValueofStaffRunSeminars . . . . . . . . 113
AnnM.CasiraghiandMiriamMulsow
9 Establishing College-Based Recovery Communities:
OpportunitiesandChallengesEncountered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
AmandaBaker
SubjectIndex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
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