Key Learning Guide
Recovery Dynamics
Rescue College
Course 411
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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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