Recovery Capital and Quality of Life in Stable Recovery From Addiction. (July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: O'Sullivan, Deirdre; Xiao, Yi; Watts, Justin R.
• Is Part Of: Rehabilitation counseling bulletin. Volume 62:Number 4(2019:Jul.)
• Page Start: 209
• Page End: 221
• Publication Date: 2019-07
• Subjects: relapse prevention -- recovery capital -- quality of life -- SMART Recovery -- recovery stages; Rehabilitation -- Periodicals; 617.06
• DOI: 10.1177/0034355217730395
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-3552

Abstract

Quality of life is becoming an increasingly important outcome measure in both relapse prevention research and rehabilitation counseling research. Recovery capital is a collection of the people and resources believed to contribute to long-term recovery from addiction. Recovery capital indicators were assessed along with quality of life in a national sample of peer support participants in stable recovery ( n = 76) to determine which recovery capital indicators relate to quality of life at this stage. Results reveal that relapse history, refusal self-efficacy, and self-stigma significantly explained about 23% of quality of life in our sample. A discussion of recovery stages and recovery capital is included, as well as implications for rehabilitation counseling practice and research.