Recovery Principles

Recovery Literacy > Recovery Principles

When SAMHSA defined recovery, they also identified 10 guiding principles of recovery. This lesson will explore each principle and how you can apply them in your personal recovery or use them to support the recovery of someone else.

Table of Contents

1. Hope
2. Person-driven
3. Many Pathways
4. Holistic
5. Peer Support
6. Networks
7. Culturally based
8. Trauma Responsive
9. Strengths-based
10. Respect
Not Enrolled
1. Definitions of “Recovery”
1.1. Personal definition
1.2. National Definition
1.3. Abstinence-based Recovery
1.4. Medication Assisted Recovery
1.5. Organizational Definition
2. Recovery Principles
2.1. Hope
2.2. Person-driven
2.3. Many Pathways
2.4. Holistic
2.5. Peer Support
2.6. Networks
2.7. Culturally based
2.8. Trauma Responsive
2.9. Strengths-based
2.10. Respect
3. Recovery Capital
3.1. Human Capital
3.2. Physical Capital 
3.3. Cultural Capital 
3.4. Social Capital 
3.5. Recovery Capital Assessments
4. Chronic Care Approach
4.1. ROSC
4.2. Recovery Management
5. Recovery Support Services
5.1. Peer-based Recovery Support Services
5.2. Types of PRSS
5.3. Service Models and Settings
5.4. Recovery Community Organizations
6. Quiz: Recovery Literacy