Creating Communities for Addiction Recovery

This book reviews important research conducted in a 13-year collaborative partnership between Oxford House (a community-based, self-run residential substance abuse recovery program) and DePaul University. It also presents practical guidelines for developing effective action research collaborative programs that can cultivate and maintain mutually beneficial community/research partnerships.

Part 1 THE COLLABORATIVE PROCESS; Chapter 1 Cultivating and Maintaining Effective Action Research Part nerships: The DePaul and Oxford House Collaborative, Margaret I. Davis, Bradley D. Olson, Leonard A. Jason, Josefina Alvarez, Joseph R. Ferrari; Chapter 2 Attitudes of Community Members as a Function of Part icipatory Research with Oxford Houses, Leonard A. Jason, Margaret I. Davis, Bradley D. Olson, Joseph R. Ferrari, Josefina Alvarez; Part 2 RESIDENCE FOR RECOVERY; Chapter 3 Creating a Home to Promote Recovery: The Physical Environments of Oxford House, Joseph R. Ferrari, Leonard A. Jason, Kelly C. Sasser, Margaret I. Davis, Bradley D. Olson; Chapter 4 This Is My Neighborhood: Comparing United States and Australian Oxford House Neighborhoods, Joseph R. Ferrari, Leonard A. Jason, Ron Blake, Margaret I. Davis, Bradley D. Olson; Chapter 5 The Influence of Policy on the Differential Expansion of Male and Female Self-Run Recovery Settings, Jordan M. Braciszewski, Bradley D. Olson, Leonard A. Jason, Joseph R. Ferrari; Chapter 6 Economic Costs of Oxford House Inpatient Treatment and Incarceration: A Preliminary Report, Bradley D. Olson, Judah J. Viola, Leonard A. Jason, Margaret I. Davis, Joseph R. Ferrari, Olga Rabin-Belyaev; Part 3 RESIDENTS IN RECOVERY; Chapter 7 Stress and Coping: The Roles of Ethnicity and Gender in Substance Abuse Recovery, Justin T. Brown, Margaret I. Davis, Leonard A. Jason, Joseph R. Ferrari; Chapter 8 Structural Social Support: Impact on Adult Substance Use and Recovery Attempts, Kerri L. Kim, Margaret I. Davis, Leonard A. Jason, Joseph R. Ferrari; Chapter 9 Medical Care of Individuals Residing in Substance Abuse Recovery Homes: An Analysis of Need and Utilization, Julie E. Ponitz, Bradley D. Olson, Leonard A. Jason, Margaret I. Davis, Joseph R. Ferrari; Chapter 10 African American Oxford House Residents: Sources of Abstinent Social Networks, Andrea M. Flynn, Josefina Alvarez, Leonard A. Jason, Bradley D. Olson, Joseph R. Ferrari, Margaret I. Davis; Chapter 11 Children, Women, and Substance Abuse: A Look at Recovery in a Communal Setting, Lucía d'Arlach, Bradley D. Olson, Leonard A. Jason, Joseph R. Ferrari; Chapter 12 Women Leadership in Oxford House: Examining Their Strengths and Challenges, Margaret I. Davis, Marta M. Dziekan, Elizabeth V. Horin, Leonard A. Jason, Joseph R. Ferrari, Bradley D. Olson;