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TIP #51: Substance Abuse Treatment: Addressing the Specific Needs of Women

380 pages. Includes index and bibliography. Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series #51. The primary goal of this TIP is to assist substance abuse treatment providers in offering effective, up-to-date treatment to adult women with substance use disorders. It reviews gender-specific research and best practices beginning with the common patterns of initiation of substance use among women and extending to specific treatment issues and strategies across substance abuse treatment services. In the last 15 years, women-specific substance abuse research and gender-responsive treatment strategies have dramatically increased, thus providing a wealth of women-specific resources to guide its development. This TIP provides clinical and administrative information to assist counselors, clinical supervisors, program administrators, and others working with female clients with substance use disorders on how they can best respond to the specific treatment needs of women. Using a biopsychosocial framework and incorporating gender-responsive principles, this TIP emphasizes the importance of women’s unique developmental milestones, physiological makeup, and the sociocultural influences that can play

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