Substance Abuse Recovery in College Community Supported Abstinence /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cleveland, H. Harrington. (Editor), Harris, Kitty S. (Editor), Wiebe, Richard P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Series: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Education, Higher.; Social work.; Applied psychology.; Developmental psychology.; Psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Higher Education.; Social Work.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1767-6

More than 80% of college students are drinking. More than a third do drugs. For students struggling with substance abuse, temptations on campusand stressors that can derail abstinencerun high. In response, several colleges and universities offer effective support in the form of recovery communitie...

Table of Contents:

• The Need for College Recovery Services
• Collegiate Recovery Communities: What They Are and How They Support Recovery
• Facilitating Identity Development in Collegiate Recovery: An Eriksonian Perspective
• Characteristics of Collegiate Recovery Community Members
• Maintaining Abstinence in College: Temptations and Tactics
• Daily Lives of Young Adult Members of a Collegiate Recovery Community
• How Membership in the Collegiate Recovery Community Maximizes Social Support for Abstinence and Reduces Risk of Relapse
• Building Support for Recovery into an Academic Curriculum: Student Reflections on the Value of Staff Run Seminars
• Establishing College-Based Recovery Communities: Opportunities and Challenges Encountered.