Description: The word "recovery" is often used, but what does it really mean?  This webinar will highlight the emergence of recovery as an organizing paradigm for addiction treatment, outline the challenges in defining recovery and related concepts, review samples of work to date to define recovery, and discuss areas of emerging consensus and continued contention in defining recovery.

Learning Objectives: As a result of participating in this webinar, you will be able to:

• List at least 3 factors that contributed to the early 21st century rise of recovery as a new organizing construct in the addictions field
• Identify the 3 core ingredients contained within recent governmental/professional consensus panel definitions of recovery
• Distinguish recovery and clinical remission

Presenter: William (“Bill”) White is a Senior Research Consultant at Chestnut Health Systems, past-chair of the board of Recovery Communities United and a volunteer consultant to Faces and Voices of Recovery.  He has a Master’s degree in Addiction Studies from Goddard College and has worked full time in the addictions field since 1969 as a streetworker, counselor, clinical director, trainer and researcher.   Bill has authored or co-authored more than 400 articles, monographs, research reports and book chapters and 16 books.  His book, Slaying the Dragon - The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America, received the McGovern Family Foundation Award for the best book on addiction recovery.  Bill’s sustained contributions to the treatment field in the United States have been acknowledged by awards from the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, NAADAC:  The Association of Addiction Professionals, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and the Native American Wellbriety Movement.  His widely read papers on recovery advocacy are published in the book Let’s Go Make Some History:  Chronicles of the New Addiction Recovery Advocacy Movement. He has also recently published three seminal monographs:  Recovery Management and Recovery-oriented Systems of Care:  Scientific Rationale and Promising Practices, Peer-based Addiction Recovery Support:  History, Theory, Practice and Scientific Evaluation, and Recovery-oriented Methadone Maintenance.  His latest book, co-edited with John Kelly, is Addiction Recovery Management:  Theory, Research and Practice.  Bill’s collected papers can be found at www.williamwhitepapers.com

Who Should Attend: Direct care addiction counselors who provide addiction treatment and recovery services.

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