What value might resiliency training bring

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  What value might resiliency training bring in relation to preventing relapse in our peer navigators?

• IRAS ID

  146036

• Contact name

  Catherine McQuarrie

• Contact email

  c.mcquarrie@salford.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  University of Salford

• Research summary

  I wish to understand and appreciate what part a resilience training package may play in the lives of those who have been affected by substance misuse. The recovery agenda in addiction, endorses the role of the recovering community as a complement to the existing formal services. There is an expectation that services create discrete roles for services users who have graduated from their respective organisations in order that they may adopt the role of recovery champions/ peer navigators. I would like to interview those who are in recovery and providing support to others, in order to appreciate the benefits and drawbacks of the current recovery programmes and how resiliency training may be incorporated into the recovery journey to ensure that we are preparing services users to take on this role effectively.
  Recently there has been a departure from a medicalised model of treatment in addiction services to a Recovery Oriented System, (Gilman and Yates 2010).

  Hyser (2001) argued that substance misuse is a ’chronic recurring condition’. The apparent predictors of improved recovery are related to the extent of social and personal resources an individual may possess.
  Anecdotally as a manager of an addiction service I see people recovering from drug and alcohol issues and rapidly taking on roles which entail supporting others. I am concerned that we are not preparing these individuals for those roles adequately and actually putting them at risk of further relapse into addiction.

  I would like to interview a group of recovering/ recovered service users in order to appreciate what it is that sustains recovery and what may have been missing from their support systems.
  I would like to undertake this research in central Lancashire. I envisage that the study may take two months to undertake and that a group of 8-10 individuals would be interviewed

• REC name

  North West - Preston Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  14/NW/0320

• Date of REC Opinion

  9 Jun 2014

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion