Helping Men Recover

"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"--