The Recovery Process
Stages of Recovery
While it's true that recovery looks different for everybody, there are stages that you might be able to expect in someone's recovery journey. As you begin to take on your role in a recovery community center, this is an important concept to understand so you can help recoverees. This topic page provides several resources to explain what these stages may look like, what they are, and what they might mean to you as a part of the recovery community.
On this page, you'll find resources that discuss the key elements of the stages of recovery. You can find the resources on this topic and a description of each item in the list below. You can click on the title of the resource to jump down to it on the page, or simply scroll down to see previews of each resource.
Available Resources
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Training Guides
- The Stages of Change (6 pages)
- The Stages of Recovery (4 pages)
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Videos
- CCAR: Beyond the Stages of Change (~1 hour)
- CCAR: Addiction and Self-Responsibility (~1 hour)
- CCAR: Breaking the Pattern of Self-Isolation (~1 hour)
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Articles & Webpages
This CCAR guide is an example of a training provided to their recovery coaches. The training describes the stages of change and how you can use them to understand the process of recovery. Click here for an editable version of this document.
This CCAR guide is an example of a training provided to their recovery coaches. The training describes what the stages of recovery are, how they've adapted them to make sense for their center, as well as a guide on their framework. Click here for an editable version of this document.
Videos
Watch this video to learn more about the stages of change and what they might look like.
How are recovery from addiction and self-responsibility interrelated? This video from CCAR explores that relationship.
This webinar describes how socialization can strengthen someone's recovery journey.
Articles & Webpages
The Recovery Research Institute says, "If we want addiction destigmatized, we need a language that's unified". To that end, they have developed an online dictionary of terms related to substance use and recovery.
In this publication from Faces and Voices of Recovery, they uncover some of the science behind addiction, including some of the key stages.
On this page from Recovery Iowa, you can learn more about what recovery is and what it might look like. Additionally, it includes resources that cover the stages of recovery as discussed by SAMHSA.