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Dr. Covington's books and curricula are among the most well respected in the field of gender-responsive treatment. Widely praised by mental health professionals and researchers, these materials address the varied needs of clinicians, group facilitators, and program administrators. They also provide help to women and girls who are seeking information and assistance with the issues of substance abuse, trauma and relationships.
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Women and Addiction: A Gender-Responsive Approach Historically, addiction research and treatment have
been focused on men. Now, there is a growing recognition of the need for gender-responsive treatment services for addicted women. This manual and DVD provide an overview of what is essential in creating woman-centered services, including a theoretical foundation, and guiding principles, a discussion of what counselors need to know and do in order to be effective, and a description of important program elements. The complete package is part of Hazelden’s Clinical Innovators Series and includes a self-test for continuing education units (10 CEU’s).
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Beyond Trauma:
A Healing Journey for Women Facilitator's Guide
Beyond Trauma:
A Healing Journey for Women Workbook
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Beyond Trauma: A Healing Journey for Women is an integrated curriculum for women's services based on theory, research, and clinical experience. While the materials are designed for trauma treatment, the connection between trauma and substance abuse in women's lives is a theme throughout. The program has been developed for use in residential and outpatient treatment settings, domestic violence programs, mental health clinics, and criminal justice settings. Beyond Trauma has a psychoeducational component that teaches women what trauma is, its process, and its impact on both the inner self (thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values) and the outer self (behavior and relationships, including parenting). The major emphasis is on coping skills with specific exercises for developing emotional wellness.
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Voices: A Program of Self-Discovery and Empowerment
Facilitator's Guide
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Voices consists of a Facilitator's Guide and a Participant's Journal. It was created to address the unique needs of adolescent girls and young women between the ages of twelve and eighteen. Voices encourages girls to seek and celebrate their "true selves" by giving them a safe space, encouragement, structure, and support to embrace their important journey of self-discovery. The program advocates a strength-based approach that helps girls to identify and apply their power and voices as individuals and as a group. The focus is on issues that are important in the lives of adolescent girls, from modules about self and connecting with others to exploring healthy living and the journey ahead...
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Helping Women Recover -
A Program for Treating Addiction
Facilitator's Guide (Rev. Ed.)
Helping Women Recover - A Woman's Journal (Rev. Ed.) |
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The revised edition of Dr. Covington’s innovative gender-responsive and trauma-informed program integrates theories of women’s psychological development, trauma, and addiction. It contains evidence-based data as well as proven techniques to meet the needs of chemically dependent women. The comprehensive, seventeen-session learning package contains four modules with specific exercises that address the four topics that women identify as triggers for relapse: self, relationships, sexuality, and spirituality. These materials provide the information and tools counselors, mental health professionals, and program administrators need to implement a highly effective program of treatment for women’s recovery groups in varied settings.
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Helping Women Recover -
A Program for Treating
Substance Abuse
Special Edition for use in the Criminal Justice System Facilitator's Guide (Rev. Ed.)
A Woman's Journal -
Special Edition for use in the Criminal Justice System Participant's Workbook (Rev. Ed.)
In this version of Helping Women Recover, Dr. Covington addresses the special concerns and issues of substance- abusing women in correctional settings. The coordinated facilitator's guide and workbook create the highly effective Helping Women Recover program to aid women during the process of recovery.
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This compilation of women's voices and widsom illuminates the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. A Woman's Way explores such fundamental topics as spirituality, powerlessness, and the emergence of a women's sense of the feminine soul. It maintains the underlying spiritual truths of the Twelve Steps program while overcoming the traditional male orientation of A.A...
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| A Woman's Way through the Twelve Steps Workbook |
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This companion volume to the book A Woman's Way through the Twelve Steps helps women deepen their understanding of the Twelve Steps by speaking to the ways in which women experience addiction. The workbook, useful through all phases of treatment and recovery for a variety of addictions, explains each of the Twelve Steps with a focus on women's particular...
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Awakening Your Sexuality -
A Guide for Recovering Women |
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One of the most ignored and neglected issues for women in recovery from addiction and abuse is sexuality. With candor and compassion, Dr. Covington reminds readers that recovery "is about living life fully and completely, and sexual recovery is integral to the fullness of your life." Awakening Your Sexuality gives women the tools to process their sexual histories...
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Leaving the Enchanted Forest:
The Path from Relationship Addiction to Intimacy
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This is a clear, practical guide for anyone interested in developing healthy relationships. In addition to discussing the roles and impacts of family and society on relationships, Leaving the Enchanted Forest provides ten stepping-stones to intimacy (i.e. values, comm- unication, boundaries, quality time). Using richly detailed examples, suggestions, and exercises for self exploration, this book offers real solutions for the healing of relationships. |
Women in Recovery:
Understanding Addiction Workbook
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This 48-page, interactive workbook is intended for use as an educational journal by women in substance-abuse treatment programs. The material, which is presented in a colorful, easy-to-read format, is based on the most up-to-date information about the impact of substance abuse on women's health, families, and relationships.
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