BIO

Alexis is a second-year student double majoring in Psychology, and Family and Child Science’s at Florida State University. Currently, Alexis serves as an undergraduate research assistant for the Collegiate Recovery Program housed within FSU’s Center for Health Advocacy and Wellness (CHAW) and aspires to work as a child psychologist. As a research assistant with the CRP, she is able to use her passion for improving the mental health of young adults and connect with students on campus through groundbreaking research in recovery science. Her goal is to bring more awareness to minority students on campus about substance use disorders and aide in the dismantling of addiction, increasing recovery rates among the college population.

An update on Collegiate Recovery Students and Programs: A Systematic Literature Review from 2017-2021

Abstract

It is common practice in the social sciences to pursue literature reviews around every decade to synthesize for the field relevant updates and trends. Given the rapid growth of Collegiate Recovery Programs (CRPs) and research on them in the past five year, a systematic literature was conducted to build on the work of Brown et al. (2018) and Reed et al. (2020). Unlike literature reviews, systematic reviews seek to answer a pertinent question underlying the evolution of research on a topic. In this case, we sought to answer whether the field of Collegiate Recovery is expanding and if so, how? Special attention was given to paradigms of inquiry, intersectionality of topics, journal outlets and their disciplines. Articles that were missed or published after the previous literature reviews were selected and reported here to give an updated overview of CRPs in the present day.

Keywords: Addiction, Recovery, Substance Abuse, Collegiate Recovery Program, Drugs