Key Learning Guide
Recovery Dynamics
Rescue College
Course 411
This Key Learning Guide is to be used as a study guide for Course: “Recovery Dynamics.” Use this guide to take your personal notes. Review the material covered here as you read your text and then complete the questions. Submit answers to your instructor. Use this Key Learning Guide as a study tool for your midterm and final exams.
Introduction to Recovery Dynamics
Through out the world in which we live people are suffering. Much of the suffering and trauma experienced in this world is connected to addictive behavior which affects almost every family in some way. Nearly every family that you will come across in your ministry will have had parents, aunts, uncles, brothers, children or spouses who are dealing with the consequences of addictive behaviors. Addictions are varied, but the most common addictions are addictions to substance use, food addiction, sexual addiction, gambling addiction and codependence (addiction to being needed).
This course will provide the student the opportunity to learn about the nature of addiction and to dispel many myths about addiction. The course will examine a shift in thinking about addiction treatment as an episode of acute care services to effective treatment defined as care for a chronic condition that includes long term sustained recovery management. This course will assist the students in becoming messengers of hope to those struggling with addiction by learning how to be a faith based recovery support community that provides a range of much needed recovery support services. Recovery Dynamics will help the student develop a care-giving capacity and to have the mind of Christ regarding addicts and gain deeper understanding into the suffering caused by addiction in communities of color. The course will briefly introduce the students to the “best practices” in addiction recovery including recovery through “wholeness and transformation.” And finally, methods will be learned to assist souls in recovery to become members of communities dedicated to supporting recovery.
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Session 1
Learning the Nature of Addictions:
1. Notice and list any commonalities of the persons in the stories found in this week’s resources, including the in course materials/videos, and the stories at the AA meeting attended and list here:
2. Based on these stories, would you agree that addiction is an equal opportunity disease? Why or why not?
3. Many people believe that addiction is a voluntary disorder and that people are addicted as a result of their own choice. Do you agree? Why or why not?
4. Define Recovery according to the Faith Factor videos.
5. What would you say is the first step in bridging the gap between the client and recovery?
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