Helping Women Recover: A Program for Treating Addiction

Product Description
The latest, fully-revised and updated edition of classic and best-selling work in the field
Since it was first published in 1999, Helping Women Recover has set the standard for best practice in the field of women's treatment. Helping Women Recover is a manualized treatment intervention based on Dr. Covington's Women's Integrated Treatment (WIT) model―offering a program developed to meet the unique needs of women addicted to alcohol, other drugs, and those with co-occurring disorders. Included in SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices, The Helping Women Recover program offers counselors, mental health professionals, and program administrators the tools they need to implement a gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment program in group settings or with individual women in criminal justice settings.
Now in its third edition, this binder set including both a facilitator's guide and a hands on participant's journal, has been updated with new material on opioid addictions, how to become trauma-informed and gender-responsive, LGBTQ issues, and more. Updated references, further reading suggestions, and a chapter for facilitators which includes the challenges of working in the criminal justice system help practitioners to effectively implement the program in daily practice. A vital tool for all mental health and addiction treatment professionals, Helping Women Recover:\nDraws from the most up-to-date theory and practical applications in the fields of addiction and trauma
Covers the historical background and fundamental principles of gender-responsive services
Provides guidance for facilitating an effective woman's treatment program
Offers real-world insights on the role of the facilitator
Includes an appendix of additional recovery resources such as The Sixteen Steps for Discovery & Empowerment and Women for Sobriety New Life Program Acceptance Statements\nHelping Women Recover is essential for mental health and addiction treatment professionals including counselors, therapists, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists who work with women in HWR is essential for anyone providing services to women in criminal justice settings.
Review \nPraise for Helping Women Recover, 3rd Edition
“Helping Women Recover is a groundbreaking resource. It is an invaluable compendium of the research on women and addiction, synthesizing a great deal of information into a theoretical framework to guide effective work with women involved in the criminal justice system. My colleagues and I have relied on Dr. Covington's work to lead the way from my days as executive director of the Women's Prison Association to my current role as director of the John Jay College Prisoner Reentry Institute.“
–Ann Jacobs, Director, Prisoner Reentry Institute, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
“Twenty years ago, Stephanie Covington changed the way we approach the treatment of addiction among women involved with the criminal justice system. Now she provides us an updated edition of her seminal work informed by advancing knowledge and by her sensible and sensitive commitment to doing what works, and what is right. This is an indispensable part of a treatment curriculum for professionals at every stage of the criminal justice process and practitioners once again will profit from it.”
–Martin F. Horn, Former Commissioner of Correction and Probation for the City of New York and Former Secretary of Corrections for the State of Pennsylvania
“Helping Women Recover, 3rd Edition is an ideal curriculum for facilitators, who will appreciate the comprehensive approach, the clear explanation of goals and elements of each module and session, and the specific direction and guidance for supporting individual women in each group. Dr. Covington has further developed an ideal tool for educating and supporting women.”
–Georgia Lerner, Executive Director, Women’s Prison Association, New York
“The latest edition o