Recovery Capital
Recovery Basics
100

This is the sum of resources each person has because of their relationships.

What is social capital?

100

This is the process by which persons with or impacted by a mental illness and/or addiction experience and actively manage this disorder and reclaim their lives in the community.

What is Recovery?

200

These are tangible assets such as property and money that may increase recovery options.

What is physical capital?

200

This traditional treatment model focuses on the recognition of addiction as a bio/psycho/social disease, the need for life-long abstinence and the use of an ongoing recovery program to maintain abstinence.

What is the Medical Model?

300

This includes skills, positive health, aspirations and hopes and personal resources that will enable an individual to prosper.

What is Human Capital?
300

This treatment model focuses on the need for long-term wellness and the need for self-help recovery groups to maintain recovery.

What is the Social Model?

400

This is made up of the values, beliefs and attitudes that represent cultural conformity and the ability to fit into dominant social behaviors.

What is Cultural Capital?

400

This recovery model focuses more on diagnosis and treatment of other problems or conditions that can interfere with recovery.

What is the Behavioral Model?

500

This term refers to those internal and external factors that affirm and advance a person's voluntary commitment to control substance use and/or one's mental health disorder day in and day out.

What is Recovery Capital?

500

This is the last stage in the Developmental Model of Recovery.

What is Maintenance?