About Recovery Science Research

Studies of recovery have long been an offshoot of addiction science, focused largely on pathology and symptomology. Addiction science focuses on how people get sick. Instead, the Center for Young Adult Addiction and Recovery has partnered with a variety of colleagues and stakeholders in order to explore how people get well. This standalone, interdisciplinary, evidence-driven field of recovery science is a break away from traditional addiction science.

The Recovery Informed Paradigm

  • Successful long-term recovery is self-evident and a fundamentally emanicipatory process.
  • Leverages the self-evident phenomena of successful recovery in order to study and replicate emanicipatory processes.
  • Leverages and capitalized common subjective landmarks of lived recovery experiences in order to facilitate emanicipatory growth.
  • Leverages the insights of successful recovery experiences in order to bridge the knowledge gaps between recovery science and policy, clinical theory, and public opinion.

Center for Young Adult Addiction and Recovery Publications

Studies of recovery have long been an offshoot of addiction science, focused largely on pathology and symptomology. Addiction science focuses on how people get sick. Instead, the Center for Young Adult Addiction and Recovery has partnered with a variety of colleagues and stakeholders in order to explore how people get well. This standalone, interdisciplinary, evidence-driven field of recovery science is a break away from traditional addiction science.

Collaborations and Current Projects

  • On-campus programming for students in recovery
  • Prevention for incoming KSU first-year students
  • Prevention for KSU athletes
  • Prevention for KSU Greek Life
  • Prevention for Student Conduct and Academic Integrity
  • Interdisciplinary research experiences for undergraduate and graduate research assistants
  • Ways and means of recovery assessment at partner treatment facilities
  • Characteristics of recovery
  • Theoretical constructs of recovery
  • Identity and recovery
  • Community-based recovery support services
  • Narratives of recovery

Recovery Science Research Collaborative (RSRC)

The Recovery Science Research Collaborative (RSRC) unites researchers and practitioners to advance the science of recovery. The RSRC enables professionals, students and stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to investigate the theoretical underpinnings of recovery science, to assess and develop relevant measures of individual and community recovery, and to disseminate findings across the field of recovery in order to inform policy and practice. This collaborative is hosted by Kennesaw State University and is designed to create a think-tank style environment of true collaboration that empowers recovery researchers and practitioners to move the field forward. 

If you are interested in more information about the RSRC, contact Jessica McDaniel at jmcdan33@kennesaw.edu.

RSRC Meeting Minutes and Collateral Materials

RSRC Newsletter

The RSRC offers the "Research in Review" newsletter, which is intended to provide a convenient and accessible summary of relevant research, as well as provide space for researchers to discuss their on-going projects and develop collaborative relationships. If you would like to submit content to this newsletter, please email jmcdan33@kennesaw.edu.

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