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Resources
Gender and Trauma
- A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development by John Bowlby
- Cavalcade productions - Source for Psychological Trauma videos
- Gender and PTSD by Rachel Kimerling, Paige Ouimette, and Jessica Wolfe
- Helping Men Recover: A Program for Treating Addiction by Covington, Griffin & Dauer
- In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan Life After Trauma, Second Edition: A Workbook for Healing by Dena Rosenbloom PhD, Mary Beth Williams PhD
- The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study: Bridging the gap between childhood trauma and negative consequences later in life by Vincent J. Felitti, MD
- The impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease Edited by Ruth A. Lanius, Eric Vermetten, and Claire Pain
- Trauma and Recovery: The aftermath of Violence from domestic abuse to political terror by Judith Herman MD
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Traumatic Experience and the Brain by Dave Ziegler Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society by Bessel A. van der Kolk MD, Alexander C. McFarlane, and Lars Weisaeth
- Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders: An Evidence-Based Guide by Christine A. Courtois, Julian D. Ford, Bessel A. van der Kolk and Judith L. Herman
- Using Trauma Theory to Design Service Systems by Roger Fallot and Maxine Harris
Trauma Models
Human Trafficking
- Barnaba Institute of Connecticut
- Beatings, Isolation and Fear: The Life of a Slave in the U.S. by Pierre Thomas, Jack Date, Teresa Cook
- Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery by Sage Jesse, Liora Kasten and Gloria Steinem
- Human Trafficking in the United States By Nicholas Kristof- NY Times Blog on Human Trafficking
- No More Slavery – Connecticut blog by Sarah Eisele-Dyrli
- Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress by Melissa Farley
- Sex Trafficking of Americans: The Girls Next Door, Vanity Fair by Amy Fine Collins
- Sex Trafficking of Women in the United States: International and Domestic Trends by Janice G. Raymond, Donna M. Hughes, and Carol J. Gomez
- The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today, With a New Preface by Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter
- Woman, Child for Sale: The New Slave Trade in the 21st Century by Gilbert King and Eleanor Clift
Women Offenders
- A Randomized Experimental Study of Gender-Responsive Substance Abuse Treatment for Women in Prison. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment by Nena Messina, Christine E. Grella, Jerry Cartier and Stephanie Torres
- Achieving Accurate Picture of Risk and Identifying Gender-Responsive Needs: Two new assessments for Women Offenders by Patricia Voorhis, Emily Salisbury, Emily Wright, and Ashley Bauman
- Assessing recidivism risk across female pathways to crime by Michael Reisig, Kristy Holtfreter, and Merry Morash in Justice Quarterly
- Assessment to Assistance Programs for Women in Community Correction edited by Maeve McMahon
- Enhancing substance abuse treatment and HIV prevention for women offenders: Final report by Kimberly Bond, Nena Messina, and Stacy Calhoun
- Gender-responsive programming and evaluation for women in the criminal justice system: A shift from what works to what is the work? by Stephanie Covington and Barbara Bloom
- Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Community Corrections: The Principles of Effective Intervention by The National Institute of Corrections and Crime and Justice Institute
- Pandora’s box: Risk/need and gender-responsive corrections by Kelly Hannah-Moffat in Criminology and Public Policy
- Poverty, state capital and recidivism among women offender. by Michael Reisig, Kristy Holtfreter, and Merry Morash in Criminology and Public Policy
- The Assessment and Treatment of Women Offenders: An Integrative Perspective by Kelly Blanchette and Shelley Brown
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- The women are not wrong: It is the approach that is debatable by Kelly Taylor and Kelley Blanchette in Criminology and Public Policy
- Women Street Hustlers: Who they are and how they survive by Barbara Rockell
Homelessness
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Homeless Mothers: Face to Face with Women and Poverty by Deborah Connolly
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Homelessness as Psychological Trauma: Broadening Perspectives by Lisa Goodman, Leonard Saxe, and Mary Harvey
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Shadow Women: Homeless Women's Survival Stories by Marjorie Bard
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Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women by Elliot Liebow
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The New Poverty: Homeless Families in America by Ralph DaCosta Nunez
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Sexual Health
- A History of Sexual Abuse Elevates the Massachusetts Teenagers' Risk of Engaging in Unsafe Sexual Practices by Family Planning Perspectives
- A Woman's Guide to Sexual Health (Yale University Press Health & Wellness) by Mary Jane Minkin M.D. and Carol V. Wright Ph.D.
- Damaged Goods?: Women Living With Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases by Adina Nack
- Inaccessible Miracles?: Women's Access to HIV/AIDS Medications by Lisa Bowleg, Leslie R. Wolfe, Edna Amparo Viruell-Fuentes, and Rosa Castañeda.
Sanctuary for Change. A model for help at-risk women make informed choices about their sexual health. By Germayne Tizzano
- Sexual Abuse and Sexual Risk Behaviors of Minority Women with Sexually Transmitted Diseases by Jane Champion, Rochelle Shain, Jeanne Piper, Sondra Perdue
- Sexual and physical abuse history and adult sexual risk behaviors: Relationships among women and potential mediators by Heather Littleton, Carmen Radecki Breitkopf, and Abbey Berenson
- The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Laura Davis
- The Psychological Consequences of Sexual Trauma by Nicole P. Yuan, Mary P. Koss, and Mirto Stone
- Women and Sexually Transmitted Diseases by American Social Health Association
- Women, Families and HIV/AIDS: A Sociological Perspective on the Epidemic in America by Carole A. Campbell
- Women, Sexual Violence, and HIV: an amfAR Monograph by the Foundation for Aids Research
- Yes You Can! - Working with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Second Edition by The Scottish Government
Co-Occuring Disorders
Violence Against Women/ Domestic Violence
- Domestic Violence Offenders: Current Interventions, Research, and Implications for Policies and Standards by Robert Geffner and Alan Rosenbaum
- Facing Diversity: Responding to Violence Against Women from Diverse Cultures
- Healing the Trauma of Domestic Violence: A Workbook for Women by Edward S. Kubany, Mari A. McCaig, Janet R. Laconsay
- I Am Not Your Victim: Anatomy of Domestic Violence by Beth Sipe and Evelyn J. Hall
- Listening to Battered Women by Lisa Goodman, Deborah Epstein
- Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change (SAGE Series on Violence against Women) by Dr. Sandra E. Lundy,and Ms. Beth Leventhal
Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS by World Health Organization
- Violence Against Women with Mental Illness Issue Brief from the Justice Center
- Women and Victimization: Contributing Factors, Interventions, and Implications by TK Logan, PhD; Robert Walker, Carol Jordan, Carl Leukefeld
- World Health Organization (WHO) Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women
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