Publications

Background: Intensive Family Preservation Services (IFPS) are an important part of child welfare. They are short-term, in-home treatment programs aimed at preventing imminent out-of-home placements, however, today, their overall effectiveness remains unclear. Objective: This study aims to conduct a comprehensive review of IFPS effectiveness, evaluate a wide range of outcomes, and analyze the impact of various factors on its success. Methods: A ...

Introduction: There is little research around recovery pathways and how they cluster together by individual and situational factors according to time in recovery. Method: This paper uses a cluster analysis with data from the European Life in Recovery (LiR) survey to produce typologies of recovery pathways around stages of recovery: early (<1 year), sustained (1-5 years), and stable (>5 years). A secondary aim was to explore evidence of ...

Visual impairment often becomes noticeable to others through the visibility of a white cane. This public sign of blindness is an imperative signal that people understand, interpret and act in accordance with; however, the white cane is more than an external iconic aid. This study describes, explains and reflects on movement, assemblages, relationality, companionship, interconnectedness and learning opportunities that resonated across multiple ...

Background Recovery colleges (RCs) support personal recovery through education, skill development and social support for people with mental health problems, carers and staff. Guided by co-production and adult learning principles, RCs represent a recent mental health innovation. Since the first RC opened in England in 2009, RCs have expanded to 28 countries and territories. However, most RC research has been conducted in Western countries with ...

Introduction: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are an important source of information that allow for a patient- centered assessment. Outcome measurement of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment traditionally focuses on drug use and deficits in functioning, overlooking other aspects of the personal and dynamic process of recovery. The substance use recovery evaluator (SURE) is a PROM developed with service user input to monitor the ...

Background: Substance use disorders (SUDs) are increasingly recognized as a significant public health concern in Africa, placing considerable strain on the economy, healthcare system, and society at large. Given the dual disease burden of both infectious and non-communicable diseases, African countries may not prioritize addressing the emerging epidemic of SUDs. There is a paucity of scientific literature on SUD treatment outcomes following ...

The Signs of Safety (SofS) approach has been designed as a strengths- and solution-oriented approach for professional care providers to support families and children referred to Child Protection Services (CPS). Although SofS has been implemented worldwide within statutory and non-statutory child protection practices, research from the perspective of families that evidences the approach’s impact is currently lacking. As previous research has ...

Recovery support services (RSS) are crucial to facilitate addiction recovery and require a broad range of services, but in several countries these services are not available or hardly accessible to persons with substance use disorder. Besides evidence for RSS, we need to identify key barriers and facilitators for implementing comprehensive and effective recovery-oriented systems of care and seamlessly integrating these services.

Parental Burnout (PB) arises from enduring and overwhelming parenting stress and is characterized by an intense exhaustion in the parental role. This study aims to provide a better understanding of this condition by examining the role of parents' basic psychological needs (i.e., autonomy, relatedness, and competence), as defined in Self-Determination Theory, in PB. Whereas previous studies relied on questionnaires to examine associations between ...

Background: Relational rather than individualistic understandings of recovery in the context of alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems have gained recognition. Social identity models, such as the Social Identity Model of Recovery (SIMOR) highlight recovery as a process of social identity transformation. However, these developments are primarily grounded in treatment and peer support settings, potentially underemphasizing the complex dynamics of ...