Education and Training

Course

At this time, there is no specific course sponsored or approved by DBH to be available to counselors who want to know more about providing women’s gender-specific treatment.

Online

The Addiction Technology Transfer Centers sometimes have very good on-line trainings available on a variety of substance use disorder-related topics. The ATTCs can be accessed at this website: http://www.attcnetwork.org/index.asp

Reading material

There is lots of relevant printed information regarding women’s gender-specific treatment. These are publications put out by SAMHSA that are specific to women’s treatment:

Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) manual # 51 Addressing the Specific Needs of Women,
TIP #27 Comprehensive case management for substance abuse treatment
TAP publication #23 Substance Abuse Treatment for Women Offenders
Werner, D., Young, N.K., Dennis, K., & Amatetti, S. Family Centered Treatment for Women with Substance Use Disorders—History, Key Elements and Challenges. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2007.

Some books that are relevant to women’s treatment:

Carol Gilligan In a Different Voice;
Jean Baker Miller: Toward a New Psychology of Women;
Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clincy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule Women’s Ways of Knowing;
Stephen R. Kandall Substance and Shadow: Women and Addiction in the United States
Maxine Harris & Roger Fallot Using Trauma Theory to Design Service Systems
Rosemary L. Gido and Lanette Dalley Women’s Mental Health Issues Across the Criminal Justice System

This is in no way a complete bibliography, as there are many publications that pertain directly or indirectly to behavioral health services for women.