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Responding to
Physical and Sexual Abuse in Women with Alcohol and Other Drug and Mental Disorders
Edited by Bonita M. Veysey, PhD
Associate Dean and Assistant Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University,
Newark, New Jersey
Colleen Clark, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mental Health, Law and Policy, Louis de la
Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa
About The Book:
Learn from the experiences of these program sites to develop better services for women
with co-occurring disorders and histories of violence
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 programs of 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 vital resource examines how—over a period of five years—each site designed,
implemented, and evaluated their interventions. You will learn 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.
In Responding to Physical and Sexual Abuse in Women with Alcohol and Other Drug and Mental
Disorders, you will learn about the details of nine different programs, including:
Franklin County Women’s Research Project—a collaborative project for rural
women, designed and operated by local consumer/survivor/recovering women (CSRs)
The Triad Women’s Project—a semi-rural comprehensive system of care to respond
to the needs of women and children
The Women Embracing Life and Living (WELL) Project-interventions include trauma,
parenting, systems integration and mutual help groups withIntegrated Care Facilitators
providing resource coordination and advocacy
services
PROTOTYPES, Centers for Innovation in Health, Mental Health, and Social Services—the
three levels of integration the Systems Change Center implemented the Boston Health
Commission—an integrated model of trauma-informed services culturally and
linguistically appropriate for its service population of primarily poor Latina and African
American women
Palladia’s Portal Project—a comprehensive trauma-informed intervention designed
to put trauma and safety first to assist women remaining in treatment
Arapahoe House’s New Directions for Families—a family-oriented intervention for
women and their dependent children
Allies—comprehensive, integrated services for women as well as intervention for their
children, ages 5-10
The District of Columbia Trauma Collaboration Study (DCTCS)—a two-phase project
addressing the needs of dually diagnosed women trauma survivors
Responding to Physical and Sexual Abuse in Women with Alcohol and Other Drug and Mental
Disorders provides you with first-hand accounts of the process by which programs and
service systems were transformed. As challenges were met and strategy was adapted to
“real world” situations, the sites discussed in this text found new and improved
methods for helping this unique group of women. The book offers tips, solutions, and
possibilities to mental health professionals, substance abuse professionals, and domestic
violence professionals, and even patients and/or clients searching for support.
ORDER CODE:
HP078902604XB
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