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Responding to physical and sexual abuse in women with alcohol and other drug and mental disorders
- Editors:
- VEYSEY Bonita M., CLARK Colleen, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 207p.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
This book explores the efforts of the Women, Co-Occurring Disorders and Violence Study to address the significant lack of appropriate services for women trauma survivors with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Experts describe the services integration programmeof nine participating sites that address the multiple needs of these women. In this guide, you will find useful strategies for integrating services that are responsive to the strengths and needs of the individual as well as the community. This resource examines how each site designed, implemented, and evaluated their interventions. It explains how each site developed their strategies for integrating services at both the clinical/individual level and at the services or systems level. The book also shows how trauma-informed, gender-specific, culturally competent care fosters treatment that is sensitive to related issues such as children and parenting, interpreting culture cues, and socioeconomic difficulties.
"It's the little things": women, trauma, and strategies for healing
- Authors:
- STENIUS Vanja M.K., VEYSEY Bonita M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 20(10), October 2005, pp.1155-1174.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Women recover and heal from traumatic violent experiences in many different ways. This study, which is part of the Franklin County Women and Violence Project in the United States, explores the healing experiences of 18 women who have histories of violence, substance abuse, and involvement in the mental health and/or substance abuse treatment system. Ethnographic interviews suggest that while professional intervention can be beneficial, it may not be adequate. In fact, it can be retruamatizing. The means of service delivery and treatment by individuals, service providers and others, may be more important than the actual service. Often women find that caring individuals and a safe environment yield the greatest benefit. It is not so much what people do to help, but how they do it.