Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The result of the combined efforts of staff at a substance abuse treatment center, this book provides practical, hands-on guidance for working with addicted women. With staff and client training exercises at the end of each chapter, this comprehensive guide places particular emphasis on the women and their special needs and concerns.
Special issues and populations addressed include: pregnancy and substance abuse; designing treatment programs; homeless women; and substance abuse in the workplace.
Synopsis
The result of the combined efforts of staff at a substance-abuse treatment centre, this book provides practical, hands-on guidance for working with addicted women.
Special issues and populations addressed include: pregnancy and substance abuse; designing treatment programmes; homeless women; and substance abuse in the workplace.
Synopsis
Do you work with addicted women? How can you help them to get sober and to lead healthier lives? What are the issues women face as they work through problems with substance abuse? How does motherhood influence the recovery process? To what extent do relationships support or undermine a woman's efforts to overcome alcoholism or other addiction?
This book answers these and other questions surrounding the effective treatment of women addicts. It offers hands-on practical guidance to counselors, nurses, social workers, and others who help women along the journey from substance abuse to healthy and fulfilling lives.
Table of Contents
pt. 1. Putting women's substance abuse in social and cultural context -- Perspectives on the socialization of women -- Substance-abusing women in relationships -- Types of substance abuse and counseling strategies -- pt. 2. Special issues in enhancing women's treatment -- Guidelines for counseling -- Designing treatment programs -- Pregnancy and parenting issues -- HIV,AIDS, and women -- Dual diagnosis issues among women -- pt. 3. Trends and considerations for special populations -- Young women: prevention, intervention, and treatment -- Women of color and multicultural counseling -- Lesbians and bisexual women: outreach and treatment issues -- Disabled women and substance abuse -- Homeless women -- Elderly women -- Substance-abusing women in the workplace -- pt. 4. Conclusion -- Wellness for women in recovery.