This book brings together all the key evidence on recovery capital measurement and its application. It offers a clear and accessible overview of the development of the strengths-based approach in addressing behavioural health issues and quantifying and measuring recovery capital, along with the evidence base for this approach.


The book sets out the proven benefits of this approach to measuring and bolstering addiction recovery, demonstrating the impact of the approach in improving the quality of services available to people at different stages of their recovery journey, making it the ‘go to’ book on this topic for researchers, policy makers, practitioners and people in recovery.

Contributions by: Lorana Bartels, Matthew Belanger, Jessica Best, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Elizabeth Bowen, Adela Bunaciu, William Cloud, Beth Collinson, Robert Granfield, Sharynne Hamilton, Philip Hodgson, Lauren Hoffman, Maike Klein, Tim Leighton, Amy A. Mericle, David Patton, Rebecca Smith, Arun Sondhi, Wouter Vanderplasschen, Corrie Vilsaint, Reed Yearwood, Clara De Ruysscher, Florian De Meyer, Deborah Louise Sinclair, Aline Pouille, William White