The drug rehab business is undoubtedly a for profit business, and as such when someone sees a marketing niche as yet unfilled. You can bet they're going to start filling it; whether it's truly needed or not. It can therefore be very tough to know what you need, who to trust and where to go.
Do women need a distinct form of rehab, or do they recover just as well in a general adult rehab program?
They do.
Well, they do need to recover in a rehab that meets their unique needs anyways. If a general adult rehab can offer gender specific therapies and the treatments that women need to better their unique obstacles to recovery, then that can work fine as well.
Women suffer greatly through addiction or alcoholism, they suffer more than men do in fact; but thankfully, and as if to make up for this unfair reality, when women get the therapies and treatments they need, they have lower relapse rates than men do. Women need the same kinds of therapies than men do. They need 12 steps group meetings, they do very well in group therapy and they benefit as anyone does from individual sessions with a therapist. But women need more than this alone.
Gender specific therapies
Women bring a unique personal history into a drug or alcohol rehab, and they have in many cases endured some very different challenges on the dark journey through addiction. Without having their needs met, and their challenges understood, they cannot hope to make a full recovery.
Sexual abuse therapy
Studies show that about half of all women entering into addictions treatment have suffered sexual violence or assault, either during the period of abuse, or as a catalyst to that abuse. Women who have experienced sexual assault need sexual trauma therapy, to start to work through those issues lingering from abuse. A rehab program that fails to deal with a legacy of abuse offers women little hope of a full recovery.
No rehab can heal the scars of trauma in a month or more, but therapies that unearth lingering issues and start the healing process give women the tools they need to start healing, and to start to move beyond assault.
STD's
Women entering into rehab are twice as likely to suffer from an STD as are men. Any lingering and unresolved health challenge hampers recovery, and since health problems can provoke relapse, failing to acknowledge and deal with STD's and other health challenges leaves women very exposed to relapse.
Children
A loft of women bring enormous shame and guilt into recovery. No one can get better until they can forgive themselves for the sins of the past, and family reconciliation therapy helps women to understand that although they may have done some very irresponsible things while under the power of addiction, they are not what they did, and they can do better in the future. Parenting and familial reconciliation therapy ensures that women gain the self awareness and tools to move forwards and do better, without getting dragged back by the shame of the past.
Women only rehabs
Women do not need to go to a women only rehab, although many do choose to and this is an equally valid option for recovery, but they should never consider a rehab that does not understand their challenges, and that does not treat the concerns of their gender with respect and with treatments that work. Get help today, move beyond the pain, and look forward to a better tomorrow.
Find out what women need to get better:
http://www.choosehelp.com/rehab-programs/rehab-for-women
Or read the daily blog entry at [http://www.troubleblog.com/category/drugs-alcohol/drug-rehab/]
