Date of Award
December 2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
Committee Member
Bryan Miller
Committee Member
Melissa Vogel
Committee Member
Alain Litwin
Committee Member
Irene Pericot-Valverde
Abstract
The Faces and Voices of Recovery program in Greenville, South Carolina is part of a national recovery advocacy movement utilizing a harm-reduction framework. This study aims to identify how individual agency is accounted for in this harm reduction-based recovery group and by extension, the recovery process. Spanning a four-month discourse collection process, and incorporating partial and complete observations of participants this study identifies four tiers of participation and engagement (1) high engagement successful recovery (2) low engagement successful recovery (3) high engagement struggling recovery and (4) low engagement struggling recovery/disengaged.
Recommended Citation
Goss, Sarah Elizabeth, "Assessing the Markers of Agency in Successful Recovery Journeys: A Constructionist Narrative of Participants in an Assertive Community Engagement Modality" (2020). All Theses. 3446.
https://open.clemson.edu/all_theses/3446