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Women and Addiction: A Trauma-Informed Approach
Historically, substance abuse treatment has developed as a single-focused intervention based on the needs of addicted men. Counselors focused only on the addiction and assumed that other issues would either resolve themselves through recovery or would be dealt with by another helping professional at a later time. However, treatment for women's addictions is apt to be ineffective unless it acknowledges the realities of women's lives, which include the high prevalence of violence and other types of abuse. A history of being abused increases the likelihood that a woman will abuse alcohol and other drugs. This article presents the definition of and principles for gender-responsive services and the Women's Integrated Treatment (WlT) model. This model is based on three foundational theories: relational-cultural theory, addiction theory. and trauma theory. It also recommends gender-responsive, trauma-informed curricula to use for women's and girls' treatment services.
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Beyond Violence
Beyond Violence: A Prevention Program for Women is a forty-hour, evidence-based, gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment program specifically developed for women who have committed a violent crime and are incarcerated. This program offers counselors, mental health professionals, and program administrators the tools they need to implement a gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment program within the criminal justice system. This Participant Workbook helps participants understand the relationships between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; learn new skills, including communication, conflict resolution, decision making, and calming soothing techniques; and become part of a group of women working to create a less violent world.
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Evaluation of a Trauma-Informed and Gender-Responsive Intervention for Women in Drug Treatment
There is growing recognition of the complex needs of women with dual diagnoses of substance abuse and mental health disorders. Recent research indicates that 55% to 99% of women with co-occurring disorders have experienced trauma from abuse and that abused women tend to engage in self-destructive behaviors. These women often are not well served by the services found in their communities, which separate substance abuse and mental health programs, despite the fact that research shows that integrated, trauma-informed treatment services will increase the success of their recovery. A recent study examined the use of two gender-responsive, trauma-informed curricula presented in a residential facility for women, 55% of whom had criminal histories. Helping Women Recover and Beyond Trauma are both manualized programs founded on research and clinical practice and are grounded in the theories of addiction, trauma, and women's psychological development. This treatment model is named \"Women's Integrated Treatment\" (WIT). Women who successfully completed the programs were assessed at several points in time on several scales. including trauma symptomology, depression, and substance use before and after the programs. The findings indicated less substance use, less depression, and fewer trauma symptoms (p ≤ .05)-including anxiety, sleep disturbances, and dissociation-after participation in the WIT curricula.
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Strength‐based Approaches to the Treatment of Incarcerated Women and Girls
As the number and rate of women and girls involved in the criminal justice system have increased in the past decades, research on best practices for working with women and girls has also grown in order to prevent recidivism and to promote a variety of positive outcomes for these populations. Feminist pathways theory is a common theory used to explain the gendered dynamics in girls' and women's lives that contribute to their system involvement. In addition, based on this theory, gender‐responsive practices and strength‐based approaches have been suggested for girls and women. These types of practices and programming have a growing evidence‐based as well as multiple avenues for further expansion. Gender differences exist in the type of programming available to men and women involved in the United States' criminal justice system.
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