• Carla Green -Rethinking the Way We Deliver Addiction Treatment to Women: Fostering Recovery Through Empowerment and a Customer Focus

  Accompanying Article:
   
  Greenfield, S. F., Brooks, A. J., Gordon, S. M., Green, C. A., Kropp, F., McHugh, R. K., Lincoln, M., Hien, D., & Miele, G. M. (2007). Substance abuse treatment entry, retention, and outcome in women: A review of the literature. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 36, 1-21.
  

• Stephanie Covington - Gender Matters! Creating Gender-Responsive Services
  
  Accompanying Articles:
  

  Covington, S. (2007). Working with substance abusing mothers: A trauma-informed, gender-responsive approach. The Source, 16(1). 1-11.

Covington, S. S., & Bloom, B. E. (2006). Gender-responsive treatment and services in correctional settings. In E. Leeder (Ed.). Women and Therapy, 29(3/4), 9-33.                    

                 

Assessment & Engagement Circle

• Barbara Sullivan - The Female Brain: Why We Are Vulnerable to Addictions
  
  
• Constance Weisner & LeeAnn Kaskutas - Recent Developments in Assessment and Engagement and Application to Women

• Norma Finklestein - Trauma-Informed Gender Responsive Treatment for Substance Abusing Women and Their Children: Relational/Empowerment Model
  
  
  Accompanying Articles:

Finkelstein, N. (1996). Using the relational model as a context for treating pregnant and parenting chemically dependent women. Journal of Chemical Dependency Treatment, 6(1/2), 23-44.

Finkelstein, N., & Markoff, L. S. (2004). The women embracing life and living (WELL) project: Using the relational model to develop integrated systems of care for women with alcohol/drug use and mental health disorders with histories of violence. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 22(3/4), 63-80.

Finkelstein, N., Kennedy, C., Thomas, K., & Kearns, M. (1997). Gender-specific substance abuse treatment. The National Women’s Resource Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Abuse and Mental Illness. National Association for Families and Addiction Research and Education, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSM) Contract No: 277-94-3009.

Finkelstein, N., Vandemark, N., Fallot, R., Brown, V., Cadiz, S., & Heckman, J. (2004). Enhancing substance abuse recovery through integrated trauma treatment. National Trauma Consortium for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) under contract number 270-2003-00001-0001.

Markoff, L. S., Finkelstein, N., Kammerer, N., Kreiner, P., & Prost, C. A. (2005, April/June). The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 32(2), 227-240.

• Mary-Lynn Brecht & Sherry Larkins - Gender Issues in Treatment for Methamphetamine Users (This presentation is not available for distribution at this time) for additional information please contact Mary-Lynn Brecht at brecht@ucla.edu or Sherry Larkins slarkins@ucla.edu or visit one of the following resource links :

  • UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs website: www.uclaisap.org
  • Methamphetamine info website:  www.methamphetamine.org
  • Methamphetamine Treatment: A Practitioner’s Reference available at   www.adp.ca.gov/Meth/meth.shtml

• Charles O'Brien - Addiction: A Chronic Disease
  
  
  Accompanying Articles:

McLellan, A. T., Lewis, D. C., O’Brien, C. P., & Kleber, H. D. (2000). Drug dependence, a chronic medical illness: Implications for treatment, insurance, and outcomes evaluation. Journal of the American Medical Association, 284(13), 1689-1695.

O’Brien, C. P. (2005). Anticraving medications for relapse prevention: A possible new class of psychoactive medications. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162(8), 1423-1431.

O’Brien, C. P., Leshner, A. I., Kleber, H. D., & McLellan, A. T. (n.d.). We must recognize addictin as a brain disease.

• Claire Wilcox - Women, Ovarian Hormones and Relapse to Addiction

• Joe Amico - Queerly Evident: Issues Surrounding Sexual Minorities
  
  
• Olivia Silber Ashley & Thomas Brady - Special Services for Women in Substance Abuse Treatment
  
  
  Accompanying Articles:

A comparison of female and male treatment admissions: 2002. (2005, May 20). The Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) Report. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies Retrieved on August 29, 2007, from http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k5/genderTX/genderTX.cfm.

Ashley, O. S., Marsden, M. E., & Brady, T. E. (2003). Effectiveness of substance abuse treatment programming for women: A review. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 29(1), 19-53.

Ashley, O. S., Sverdlov, L., & Brady, T. M. (2004) Length of stay among female clients in substance abuse treatment. In C. L. Council (Ed.).Health Services Utilization by Individuals with Substance Abuse and Mental Disorders (DHHS Publication No. SMA 04–3949, Analytic Series A-25). Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies.

Brady, T. M., & Ashley, O. S. (Eds.). (2005). Women in substance abuse treatment: Results from the Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS) (DHHS Publication No. SMA 04-3968, Analytic Series A-26). Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies.

Cigarette use among pregnant women and recent mothers. (2007, February 9). The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Retrieved on August 29, 2007, from http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k7/pregCigs/pregCigs.cfm.

Facilities offering special programs or groups for women: 2005. (2006). The Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) Report. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Retrieved on August 29, 2007, from http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k2/FemServices/FemServices.cfm.

Gender differences in alcohol use and alcohol dependence or abuse: 2004 and 2005. (2007, August 2). The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Retrieved on August 29, 2007, from http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k7/AlcGender/AlcGender.cfm.

Substance abuse and dependence among women. (2005, August 5). The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Retrieved on August 29, 2007, from http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k5/women/women.cfm.

• Lula Beatty - Attending to Race, Ethnicity and Culture in Treating Girls and Women with Drug Abuse Problems
  
  
• Louise Baushard - The Perfect Storm: Taking Longitude and Latitude Markers to Empower Recovery
  
  
• Anne Helene Skinstad - Women With Both substance Use Disorders and Co-occurring Mental Disorders: Double Trouble or Double Challenge