What is Recovery Management?
The Recovery Management (RM) model of addiction treatment shifts the focus of care from professional-centered episodes of acute symptom stabilization toward the client-directed management of long-term recovery. It wraps traditional interventions within a more sustained continuum of:
- Pre-recovery support services to enhance recovery readiness
- In-treatment recovery support services to enhance the strength and stability of recovery initiation, and
- Post-treatment recovery support services to enhance the durability and quality of recovery maintenance.
(GLATTC Bulletin, 2006)
Principles of Recovery Management
- Emphasis on resilience and recovery processes (as opposed to pathology and disease processes)
- Recognition of multiple long-term pathways and styles of recovery
- Empowerment of individuals and families in recovery to direct their own healing
- Development of highly individualized and culturally nuanced services
- Heightened collaboration with diverse communities of recovery, and
- Commitment to best practices as identified in the scientific literature and through the collective experience of people in recovery. (http://www.bhrm.org/papers/principles/BHRMprinciples.htm and http://www.dmhas.state.ct.us/corevalues.htm)
(GLATTC Bulletin, 2006)
