Download or read book Helping Women Recover, Correctional Package, A Program for Treating Addiction, Special Edition for Use in Correctional Settings (Package includes Facilitator's Guide and A Woman's Journal) written by Stephanie S. Covington and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1999-03-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 based on Dr. Covington’s Women’s Integrated Treatment (WIT) model. It offers a program specifically designed to meet the unique needs of women in correctional settings who are addicted to alcohol and other drugs or have co-occurring disorders. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes evidence-based and empirically tested therapeutic interventions that are used to treat substance abuse and trauma in an innovative way. 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 within the criminal justice system.