Recovery Capital & Strengths Flashcards

A client has been in recovery for 18 months and recently started volunteering at a community garden. From a recovery capital lens, volunteering primarily builds:

Answer: Social and purposeful engagement capital through community connection and meaning

Volunteering builds social capital through community ties while also contributing to purpose and engagement — key dimensions of sustained recovery capital.

When a recovery coach conducts a strengths-based assessment, which question is most aligned with this approach?

Answer: What resources and abilities have helped you get through difficult times before?

A strengths-based question focuses on the client's existing coping resources and resilience rather than deficits or history of problems.

The concept of 'recovery-supportive relationships' as part of social capital is best described as:

Answer: Connections with individuals who affirm and support the recovery lifestyle

Recovery-supportive relationships specifically involve people who affirm recovery values and behaviors, providing accountability and positive social reinforcement.

Which of the following best reflects the 'cultural capital' dimension within the recovery capital framework?

Answer: A client's connection to cultural heritage, traditions, or community that supports identity and resilience

Cultural capital includes a client's connection to meaningful cultural identity, traditions, and community that can serve as protective factors and sources of strength in recovery.

A recovery coach notices that a client consistently minimizes their accomplishments when reviewing progress. The most effective strengths-based intervention is to:

Answer: Reflect specific accomplishments back to the client and ask what qualities those successes reveal about them

Reflecting accomplishments back and linking them to personal qualities externalizes the client's strengths and helps them internalize a positive recovery identity.

In the context of recovery capital, 'hope' is categorized as:

Answer: A personal/internal capital asset that fuels motivation and sustains recovery engagement

Hope is an internal personal capital resource — a belief in the possibility of change — that is foundational to initiating and sustaining recovery.

A client reports that since entering recovery, their family has become 'cautiously optimistic' but not yet fully supportive. How should the coach frame this in terms of recovery capital?

Answer: This represents emerging social capital that can be developed through consistent recovery behavior over time

Cautious family optimism is an early stage of social capital that can grow as the client demonstrates sustained recovery behaviors, making it an asset to cultivate.