Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Recovery Capital
- 2 Inception to Integration: The Theoretical Roots and Institutional Growth of Recovery Capital
- 3 Reflections on Initial Attempts at the Quantificationof Recovery Capital
- 4 The Evolution of Approaches to Measure Recovery Capital
- 5 Recovery Capital as an Explanatory Model for Change and Growth
- 6 Conceptualizing Recovery Capital: Domains and Critical Perspectives
- 7 Community Recovery Capital and How it Contributes to Building Recovery Capital at an Individual Level
- 8 A Realist Perspective on Recovery Capital: Agents, Structures, Contexts, and Mechanisms
- 9 The Role of Specialist Substance Use and Addiction Treatment in Building Recovery Capital
- 10 Recovery Capital Applications in Policy and Practice
- 11 Justice Capital: Delivering Equitable Outcomes for Indigenous Children in State Care
- 12 Conclusion: Generating a Robust Science of Applied Recovery Capital
- Index
3 - Reflections on Initial Attempts at the Quantificationof Recovery Capital
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Recovery Capital
- 2 Inception to Integration: The Theoretical Roots and Institutional Growth of Recovery Capital
- 3 Reflections on Initial Attempts at the Quantificationof Recovery Capital
- 4 The Evolution of Approaches to Measure Recovery Capital
- 5 Recovery Capital as an Explanatory Model for Change and Growth
- 6 Conceptualizing Recovery Capital: Domains and Critical Perspectives
- 7 Community Recovery Capital and How it Contributes to Building Recovery Capital at an Individual Level
- 8 A Realist Perspective on Recovery Capital: Agents, Structures, Contexts, and Mechanisms
- 9 The Role of Specialist Substance Use and Addiction Treatment in Building Recovery Capital
- 10 Recovery Capital Applications in Policy and Practice
- 11 Justice Capital: Delivering Equitable Outcomes for Indigenous Children in State Care
- 12 Conclusion: Generating a Robust Science of Applied Recovery Capital
- Index
Summary
Overview
This chapter will follow one particular pathway for the development of the concept of recovery capital through the work of William White, initially in the form of a paper and an initial checklist that was intended to support the measurement of recovery capital in peer-based recovery support settings. This chapter will discuss the initial attempts at quantifying recovery capital, the origins of the Recovery Capital Scale (RCS), and how it was used and interpreted. Much of it is presented in the first person, initially with reflections from William White, and then from David Best, with the remaining sections contributed by all three authors. This developmental pathway will be reviewed to consider the approaches to measurement and the aspirations of this approach, how they reflect current thinking about recovery capital, and what the aims of measurement might be as we move forward.
William White's reflections on the history of recovery capital measurement
This section is a first-person account of William's experiences of the emergence of the concept of recovery capital and then its application and implementation.
In 1998, I helped start the Behavioral Health Recovery Management (BHRM) project in Illinois – an effort to extend addiction treatment from models of acute care to models of sustained recovery management nested in larger recovery-oriented systems of care (ROSC) – with systems defined not as the treatment system but a larger mobilization of recovery support resources within local communities (White, 2009).
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- The Handbook of Recovery CapitalUnderstanding the Science and Practice, pp. 33 - 49Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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