Conceptualizing Recovery Capital: Expansion of a Theoretical Construct

By W. Cloud, Robert T. Granfield. Substance Use & Misuse, 2008

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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In General Health Professions

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3. W. White
4. J. Tew
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2. J. Neale
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Citations in the corpus

• New Addiction-Recovery Support Institutions: Mobilizing Support Beyond Professional Addiction Treatment and Recovery Mutual Aid (2012, background): “Cloud and Granfield (2008) introduced the term recovery capital to designate the collective internal and external resources that can be mobilized to initiate and sustain the resolution of AOD problems at a personal level.”
• Recovery capital: what enables a sustainable recovery from mental health difficulties? (2013, background): “This concept has already been proposed as a focus within substance misuse services (Cloud & Granfield, 2008), although it is yet to be fully grounded within the wider theoretical literature on human capital.”
• “You’re all going to hate the word ‘recovery’ by the end of this”: Service users’ views of measuring addiction recovery (2015, background): “Those without recovery capital – income, stable homes, paid jobs, education, knowledge, skills, supportive family and social networks, etc. – will likely struggle to initiate and sustain recovery processes (Cloud & Granfield, 2001, 2008; Granfield & Cloud, 1999).”
• Recovery capital: a systematic review of the literature (2017, methodology): “…of quantifying RC for a single population: RC has been proposed as a simple accumulation of resources (Granfield & Cloud 1999, 2001); a continuum of positive and negative factors (Cloud & Granfield 2008); or a series of interdependent vectors with magnitude and direction (Daddow & Broome 2010).”