Thomasina Borkman
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View article: Mapping COVID vulnerability in relation to drug and alcohol recovery residence availability across the United States
Mapping COVID vulnerability in relation to drug and alcohol recovery residence availability across the United States Open
Recovery housing is an important resource for those in recovery from substance use disorders. Unfortunately, we know little about its relationship to key community health risk and protective factors, potentially limiting the role it could …
View article: Social model recovery and recovery housing
Social model recovery and recovery housing Open
Recovery housing is an important resource for many in their recovery from alcohol and other drug use disorders. Yet providers of recovery housing face a number of challenges. Many of these challenges are rooted in stigma and bias about rec…
View article: Deep experiential knowledge: reflections from mutual aid groups for evidence-based practice
Deep experiential knowledge: reflections from mutual aid groups for evidence-based practice Open
Background This article charts the relationships between the model of evidence-based practice (EBP), healthcare markets where providers are increasingly competing through the adoption of EBP-certified interventions, and the cultivation of …
View article: Dialogic sharing of lived experience in different self-help/mutual aid groups
Dialogic sharing of lived experience in different self-help/mutual aid groups Open
This article is based on a recent re-visiting of published data related to the ‘sharing’ processes between members of two strikingly different types of self-help/mutual aid groups (SHMAGs) run by and for peers who share the same situation.…
View article: Developing an Experiential Definition of Recovery: Participatory Research With Recovering Substance Abusers From Multiple Pathways
Developing an Experiential Definition of Recovery: Participatory Research With Recovering Substance Abusers From Multiple Pathways Open
The WIR items define recovery as ways of being, as a growth and learning process involving internal values and self-awareness with moral dimensions. This is the first wide-scale research identifying specific items defining recovery, which …