Helping Men Recover

Download or read book Helping Men Recover written by Stephanie Covington and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Understanding the need for gender-responsive treatment services for men is critical for anyone who will be using this curriculum. It is also important to understand the process of trauma and its effects on addiction and recovery. It is also important to understand the connections between gender, trauma, addiction, and crime. There is much room for improvement in traditional treatment for men, and a discussion of the history of the development of gender-responsive services for both men and women and how these have been expanded beyond the binary model can help to explain this. This chapter provides a brief overview of these issues as well as the theoretical foundation for this curriculum"--