Chemical Dependency: Women at Risk shows readers how to design and
implement drug and alcohol treatment programs that take into
account not only gender but also the cultural differences among
women. Whether you re a counselor, researcher, or health care
provider, this book will show you how to abandon
one-size-fits-all'treatment approaches that fail to address the
individual needs of women undergoing substance abuse treatment.
Instead, you ll learn to recognize and respect cultural and
individual differences among women. Use this book as a guide to
develop your own innovative multicultural treatment approaches to
substance abuse. Chemical Dependency offers a three-stage cultural
assessment model that serves as a key starting point for
transforming your services into culture-, gender-, and
ethnic-sensitive programs. You ll acquire the knowledge and skills
necessary to develop recovery services that identify patterns of
belief and customs that can assist or hinder women in achieving and
maintaining recovery.Readers of Chemical Dependency discover the
obstacles to the development of effective women's recovery
programs, as well as key service elements of successful recovery
programs. In addition, they witness firsthand how to integrate an
understanding of women's lives from a multigenerational and life
span perspective with consideration of issues such as sexuality,
violence and sexual abuse, and codependence and parenting. As a
result, professionals in the field at all levels are equipped with
the necessary know-how for providing services to underserved women
and offering them the assistance they so desperately need to
overcome their substance abuse problems.Chemical Dependency
provides readers with the most comprehensive analysis to date of
marijuana addiction in women with effective methodss for outreach,
intervention, treatment, and research. The techniques it offers for
establishing discussion frameworks for sexuality and HIV in the
context of recovery can be incorporated immediately into existing
treatment programs, as can its strategies to assist lesbians and
bisexual women in confronting the trauma they suffer as a result of
addiction, sexism, and societal homophobia.The book's authors are
professionals in the fields of treatment, research, prevention,
community organizing, and policymaking. Readers acquire from their
collaborative effort an understanding of alcohol and drug addiction
as a complex bio-psycho-social-spiritual'disease. Counselors,
researchers, health care providers, and faculty and students of
chemical dependency programs will find Chemical Dependency an
invaluable guidebook for the development or improvement of their
own approaches to successful intervention and treatment of women
susceptible to drug and alcohol abuse.
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