The Addiction and Recovery Capital Reader: Understanding the Science and Practice of Recap Models and Measurement

This book brings together all the key evidence on recovery capital measurement and its application. It offers a clear and accessible overview of the development of the strengths-based approach in addressing behavioural health issues and quantifying and measuring recovery capital, along with the evidence base for this approach.

The book sets out the proven benefits of this approach to measuring and bolstering addiction recovery, demonstrating the impact of the approach in improving the quality of services available to people at different stages of their recovery journey, making it the ’go to’ book on this topic for researchers, policy makers, practitioners and people in recovery.

David Best is Director of the Centre for Addiction Recovery Research at Leeds Trinity University.

Emily A. Hennessy is Associate Director of Biostatistics at the Recovery Research Institute, Associate Director of the National Center on Youth Prevention, Treatment and Recovery, and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.