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Towards a contextualized understanding of addiction recovery : a mixed-methods approach
No full textInternationally, recovery is increasingly addressed in the addiction field as an overarching concept to describe processes of change concerning substance use problems (Bellaert et al., 2021; Braslow, 2013; Laudet & White, 2010). Inspired by insights from the mental health sector (Davidson & White, 2007), addiction recovery is generally considered to be a complex and dynamic process of change and growth in which individuals gradually reconstitute a meaningful life and wellbeing on various life domains (Anthony, 1993; Ashford et al., 2019; White, 2007). Whereas recovery was previously defined in clinical terms, recent conceptualizations of what recovery entails put forward addiction recovery as a personal
as well as a relational process. It is personal due to its idiosyncratic nature (Dekkers et al., 2020; Neale et al., 2015) and the existence of diverse pathways to recovery (Hser & Anglin, 2010; Kelly et al., 2017). Its relational nature underscores the idea that recovery is shaped within everyday realities and interactions that are impacted by social and structural factors (Price-Robertson et al., 2017).
Despite the growing recognition of addiction recovery as a socially-embedded process, research generally provides a decontextualized picture of recovery processes and fails to address the lived experiences of persons in addiction recovery as well as the disabling and enabling social and structural factors that are often central to it. A relational approach to addiction recovery is now largely missing, even though a contextualized understanding is needed to fully grasp the complex realities of individuals in recovery (Price-Robertson et al., 2017; Vandekinderen et al., 2012; Vandekinderen et al., 2014). If we do not uncover the contextual dynamics at stake in recovery processes, we are at risk of perceiving recovery as a mere “function of a given individual’s effort or will to recover” (Duff, 2016, p. 62).
Consequently, this dissertation aimed to gain more understanding of the underlying and contextual
dynamics that facilitate and inhibit addiction recovery processes, putting a relational approach to recovery at the fore in order to supplement mere individualized views of addiction recovery. Such an enhanced understanding can contribute to developing recovery-supportive measures that include attention to the contextual dimensions of recovery.
This dissertation was grounded in the European Recovery Pathways (REC-PATH) project, a multi-country study designed to increase our understanding of drug addiction recovery journeys in three countries: Belgium (Flanders), the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom (see Best et al., 2018). The REC-PATH project combined a policy, quantitative, and qualitative study component. This dissertation similarly applied a mixed-methods approach to comprehensively understand contextual factors influencing recovery journeys, following the research phases of the REC-PATH project.
The following research questions guided this research process:
▪ Which underlying and contextual dynamics facilitate or inhibit addiction recovery processes?
o How is the recovery paradigm adopted in Belgian and Dutch policy discourse and practice? (Chapter 2)
o What are predictors of recovery capital and how does recovery capital evolve over time? (Chapter 3)
o How do contextual dynamics shape turning point experiences during addiction recovery journeys? (Chapter 4)
o How do social and structural factors play a role in enabling or disabling addiction recovery processes? (Chapter 5)
▪ What can we learn from these insights for policy, practice, and research? (Chapter 6)
In search of adequate answers to these research questions, data were collected through:
(1) a comparative policy analysis that critically examined current recovery discourses in Belgian and Dutch
addiction policies and its enactment in practice (Chapter 2),
(2) a quantitative study exploring predictors of recovery capital (Chapter 3),
and (3) two qualitative studies that focused on the lived experiences of persons in addiction recovery and contextual factors influencing their processes of change (Chapters 4 and 5).
The figure below provides a schematic outline of the research phases and how these are related to the different chapters of this dissertation.Internationaal wordt herstel in de verslavingszorg steeds meer beschouwd als een overkoepelend concept om veranderingsprocessen in verband met middelengebruik-gerelateerde problemen te begrijpen (Bellaert et al., 2021; Braslow, 2013; Laudet & White, 2010). Geïnspireerd door inzichten uit de geestelijke gezondheidszorg (Davidson & White, 2007), wordt herstel van verslaving over het algemeen beschouwd als een complex en dynamisch proces van verandering en groei waarin men geleidelijk opnieuw een zinvol leven en welzijn op verschillende levensdomeinen opbouwt (Anthony, 1993; Ashford et al., 2019; White, 2007). Terwijl herstel voorheen in klinische termen werd
gedefinieerd, wordt in recente conceptualiseringen van wat herstel inhoudt herstel bij verslaving naar voren geschoven als een persoonlijk en een relationeel proces. Het is persoonlijk vanwege zijn idiosyncratische aard (Dekkers et al., 2020; Neale et al., 2015) en het bestaan van verschillende wegen naar herstel (Hser & Anglin, 2010; Kelly et al., 2017). Het relationele karakter ervan onderstreept het idee dat herstel vorm krijgt in alledaagse realiteiten en interacties die worden beïnvloed door sociale en structurele factoren (Price-Robertson et al., 2017).
Ondanks de groeiende erkenning van herstel van verslaving als een sociaal gesitueerd proces, geeft onderzoek over het algemeen een gedecontextualiseerd beeld van herstelprocessen weer en neemt het onvoldoende de doorleefde ervaringen van personen in herstel mee, evenals de belemmerende en ondersteunende sociale en structurele factoren die er vaak centraal in staan. Een relationele benadering van herstel bij verslaving ontbreekt nu grotendeels, ook al is een gecontextualiseerd begrip nodig om de complexe realiteit van mensen in herstel volledig in kaart te brengen (Price-Robertson et al., 2017; Vandekinderen et al., 2012; Vandekinderen et al., 2014). Als we de contextuele dynamieken
onderliggend aan herstelprocessen niet blootleggen, lopen we het risico herstel te zien als louter een "functie van de inspanning of de wil van een individu om te herstellen" (Duff, 2016, p. 62). Deze dissertatie beoogde dan ook meer inzicht te verkrijgen in de onderliggende en contextuele dynamieken die herstelprocessen bij verslaving faciliteren en afremmen, waarbij een relationele benadering van herstel op de voorgrond werd geplaatst als aanvulling op louter geïndividualiseerde opvattingen van herstel. Een dergelijk verbeterd begrip kan bijdragen aan het ontwikkelen van herstelondersteunende maatregelen die aandacht hebben voor de contextuele dimensies van herstel.
Dit doctoraat is gebaseerd op het Europese Recovery Pathways (REC-PATH) project om ons begrip
van hersteltrajecten bij verslaving aan drugs in drie landen te vergroten: België (Vlaanderen), Nederland,
en het Verenigd Koninkrijk (zie Best et al., 2018). Het REC-PATH project combineerde een beleidsmatige,
kwantitatieve en kwalitatieve onderzoekscomponent. In dit proefschrift werd op een vergelijkbare manier een mixed-methods benadering toegepast om de contextuele factoren die een invloed hebben op hersteltrajecten te begrijpen, waarbij de onderzoeksfasen van het REC-PATH project werden gevolgd
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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