Bridge Over Troubled Waters? Certified Recovery Specialist Support and Community Reentry: A Pilot Study.

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q3 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI:10.1177/0306624X251322824

Derek A Kreager, Yiwen Zhang, Deirdre O'Sullivan, Gary Zajac, Kristofer Bret Bucklen

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Abstract

Peer support services, including certified recovery specialists (CRSs), have been of increasing interest to treatment scholars. However, if and how such services assist justice-involved individuals with substance use disorders during community reentry is less understood. This pilot study provided CRS services to both reentrants and their family members during the transition from close custody confinement to community supervision, a perilous period in which risks of relapse and rearrest peak. Post-intervention interviews with nine of fifteen recruited reentrants and four of five recruited family members in central Pennsylvania were analyzed using iterative thematic coding. Participants perceived CRS services as essential for the reentry and recovery process. Interviewees identified CRS's lived experience, advocacy, availability, empathy, and family outreach as key mechanisms of recovery success. These results highlight the importance of CRS services for recovery capital during the community reentry transition.

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跨越麻烦水域的桥梁？认证康复专家支持和重返社区：一项试点研究。

同伴支持服务，包括认证康复专家（CRSs），已经越来越引起治疗学者的兴趣。然而，这些服务是否以及如何在重返社区期间帮助与司法有关的物质使用障碍个人，人们了解较少。这项试点研究为在从封闭监禁过渡到社区监督期间的再入者及其家庭成员提供了CRS服务，这是一个复发和再被捕风险最高的危险时期。干预后访谈对宾夕法尼亚州中部15名招募的再入者中的9名和5名招募的家庭成员中的4名进行了迭代主题编码分析。与会者认为CRS服务对重返社会和康复过程至关重要。受访者认为CRS的生活经验、倡导、可用性、同理心和家庭外展是康复成功的关键机制。这些结果突出了CRS服务在社区重返社会过渡期间对恢复资本的重要性。

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