Salvaging a Teenage Wasteland
Origins of the Recovery High School Movement
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 December 2024
- ISBN 9780190645502
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 234x156x26 mm
- Weight 671 g
- Language English 564
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Short description:
This book provides the first major historical account of the recovery high school movement from its beginnings in the alternative schools of the 1970s that overlapped with the first adolescent substance use treatment programs.
MoreLong description:
Recovery high schools have become a key setting supporting the adolescent recovery process over the last fifty years. Salvaging a Teenage Wasteland provides the first major historical account of the recovery high school movement from its beginnings in the alternative schools of the 1970s that overlapped with the first adolescent substance use treatment programs.
Our understanding of recovery high schools has evolved along with our understanding of addiction and recovery themselves. Finch explores the development of the earliest programs in South Carolina, Texas, Maryland, and Minnesota, which served as roots for later growth. He compiles interviews from dozens of pioneers, including early administrators, teachers, and students, and reviewed hundreds of historical artifacts to trace the creation and expansion of recovery high schools. The story that emerged was closely connected to some of the major events of the times, from the counterculture movement of the 1960s, to the Drug War and advent of adolescent treatment in the 1970s, to the anti-drug campaigns of the 1980s, such as ---Just Say No---.
Cultural touchstones such as Woodstock, school desegregation, high school drug raids, and fear of cults and teenage drug use figured prominently in the creation of recovery high schools, all in an effort to create sober school spaces for teenagers. The programs that evolved are now one of the major components of addressing adolescent mental health and substance use issues.
Finch does a more than laudable job.
Table of Contents:
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Prologue
PART 1: Out of the Wilderness
Chapter 1: Carrying the Message
Chapter 2: Freedom Road
Chapter 3: Spontaneous Generation
PART 2: Phoenixes Arise
Chapter 5: Crackdown
Chapter 6: ---The Greatest Show in Rockville---
Chapter 7: Phoenix Rises
Chapter 8: Evaluation
Chapter 9: Phoenix II
Chapter 10: Sparks
PART 3: A Movement Begins
Chapter 11: Normalized Alternatives
Chapter 12: A New Dimension
Chapter 13: Becoming Sobriety High
Chapter 14: All Things Are Connected
Chapter 15: Imagination P.E.A.S.E. - Peers Enjoying a Sober Education
Chapter 16: Sock and Buskin
Epilogue: The Fate of the Schools
Afterword: Findings
