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.
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Rationale for Including Recovery as Part of the Educational Agenda |
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Authentic Voices: Stories from Recovery School Students |
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Section II: How it Was and How We Got Here |
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Twelve Step Meeting---Step One |
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Schools as a Collection of Groups and Communities |
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Adolescent Substance-use Treatment: Service Delivery, Research on Effectiveness, and Emerging Treatment Alternatives |
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Recovery Support Meetings for Youths: Considerations When Referring Young People to 12-Step and Alternative Groups |
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Section III: Where We Are Now: Recovery in High Schools |
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Twelve Step Meeting---Step Two |
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Recovery High Schools: A Descriptive Study of School Programs and Students |
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A Secondary School Cooperative: Recovery at Solace Academy, Chaska, Minnesota |
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The Insight Program: A Dream Realized |
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Section IV: Where We Are Now: Recovery in Colleges |
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Achieving Systems-Based Sustained Recovery: A Comprehensive Model for Collegiate Recovery Communities |
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The Need for a Continuum of Care: The Rutgers Comprehensive Model |
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An Exploratory Assessment of a College Substance Abuse Recovery Program: Augsburg College's Step UP Program |
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Reflections on Chemical Dependency in a College Setting and Its Intersection with Secondary School Programs |
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Twelve Step Meeting---Step Twelve |
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Jeffrey D. Roth, M.D. is an addiction psychiatrist and group psychotherapist in private practice. He is a fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association. He has been a practicing group psychotherapist for 25 years. He has presented workshops on group psychotherapy to diverse professional audiences, including group therapists, addictions treatment professionals, psychoanalysts, employee assistance professionals, attorneys and judges. He has served as director, associate director and consultant in numerous group relations conferences sponsored by the A. K. Rice Institute.
Andrew Finch currently holds an appointment as Assistant Professor of the Practice of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. He is also the School Counseling Coordinator for the Human Development Counseling program. He was a co-founder of the Association of Recovery Schools and from 1997-2006 worked for Community High School, a recovery school in Nashville.
