Women and addiction: The Untold Story - Treatment …



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` Women and Addiction: Listening to Themes

Women and Addiction: The Untold Story

Lisa M. Najavits, PhD

Description

This workshop focuses on women’s addiction. The goal is to deepen understanding of how gender impacts both the addiction process and its treatment. Topics include: rates; the telescoped course of women’s addiction; barriers to treatment; subgroups of women who appear to be prone to higher rates of addiction; staff reactions toward women with addiction, and current assessment tools. There will be a strong focus on advances in treatment that take into account gender differences, including the use of A Woman’s Addiction Workbook by Dr. Najavits. Discussion of diversity, in both rates of addiction and treatment strategies, will be highlighted. The workshop will focus on supportive and specific tools to aid recovery, including experiential exercises, clinical role-plays, video clips, self-tests, workbook materials, and questions and discussion.

Objectives

1) To increase awareness of how the addiction and its treatment are different for women than for men.

2) To explore clinical interventions that are sensitive to women’s recovery needs, with a focus on evidence-based practice.

3) To learn about empirical studies of gender differences.

3) To obtain resources for further learning on gender differences in addiction

4) To understand diversity issues in relation to women’s addiction.

Schedule

Typical training day: Please feel free to suggest any schedule you would like (e.g., longer, shorter, different breaks). A typical format is 9-4, with a half-hour lunch break and two fifteen-minute breaks (one mid-morning and one mid-afternoon). The schedule below assumes this typical format, but you can change it based on your scheduling.

Agenda

I. Background (9am to 11am)

A. How is addiction different for women than for men?

B. Key themes in women’s addiction (including domestic violence and/or trauma)

C. Dual diagnosis and women

II. Treatment (11am to noon, and 1pm to 2pm)

A. Models of women’s addiction treatment

B. Empirical studies

III. Resources (2pm to 3pm)

A. Growth exercises to help women’s recovery

B. Assessment

IV. Clinical implementation (3pm to 4:30 pm)

A. Role play. A volunteer participant will play a client and Lisa Najavits will play the clinician, to demonstrate treatment strategies.

B. Rehearsal of clinical scenarios. Challenging treatment issues will be raised, and the group will brainstorm possible solutions.

C. Self-test. Pariticipants will be offered a multiple choice self-test to evaluate their knowledge on women’s addiction.

Methods of Instruction

1. Lecture using Powerpoint slides

2. Video segments to demonstrate treatment issues

3. Experiential exercises (e.g., role-play)

4. Question/answer and discussion with participants

Educational Resources

Brogly, S.B., Link, K. and Newman, A., 2018. Barriers to Treatment for Substance Use Disorders among Women with Children. Canadian Journal of Addiction, 9(3), pp.18-22.

Covington, S. S. (1994). A Woman's Way Through the Twelve Steps. Centre City, MN: Hazelden.

McCaul, M.E., Roach, D., Hasin, D.S., Weisner, C., Chang, G. and Sinha, R., 2019. Alcohol and Women: A Brief Overview. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 43(5), pp.774-779.

Moreland, A.D. and McRae-Clark, A., 2018. Parenting outcomes of parenting interventions in integrated substance-use treatment programs: A systematic review. Journal of substance abuse treatment, 89, pp.52-59.

Najavits, L. M. (2002). A Woman's Addiction Workbook. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.

Najavits, L. M. (2002). Seeking Safety: A Treatment Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse. New York, NY: Guilford.

Najavits, L. M. (2015). Trauma and substance abuse: A clinician's guide to treatment. In M.

Cloitre & U. Schynder (Eds.), Evidence-based treatments for trauma-related disorders:

Springer-Verlag.

Najavits, L.M. (2019). Finding your best self: Recovery from addiction, trauma, or both. New York: Guilford.

Volkow, N.D., Jones, E.B., Einstein, E.B. and Wargo, E.M., 2019. Prevention and treatment of opioid misuse and addiction: a review. JAMA psychiatry, 76(2), pp.208-216.

Zakiniaeiz, Y. and Potenza, M.N., 2018. Gender-related differences in addiction: a review of human studies. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 23, pp.171-175.

Handouts

Please request them from training@treatment-

Contact

training@treatment-; 617-299-1640

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