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Creating Trauma Services for Women With Co-occurring Disorders (NMH03-0157)
Article
Many women with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders and histories of trauma are parents who value their roles as mothers and bring skills to the task. Treatment for these women can be optimized by acknowledging their roles as parents and incorporating this reality into service design and delivery.
Eating Disorders (KEN98-0047)
Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides basic information on the symptoms, medical complications, formal diagnosis, and treatment for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. 1998. 2 pp.
Journal of Primary Prevention-Special Issue Homelessness and Mental Illness Perspectives on Prevention Vol 28 Numbers 3&4 (JPP-07)
Journal
Homelessness is a growing social problem. Individuals with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders are at particularly high risk, experiencing homelessness more often and for longer periods than other subgroups. The individual and societal costs of homelessness are profound adn demand targeted and informed strategies for preventing and ending homelessness. This special issue of The Journal of Primary Prevention describes the most promising and innovative prevention strategies being used to reduce the risk of homelessness, facilitate transition into the community, and stabilize formerly homeless people to reduce the risk of homelessness, facilitate transition into the community, and stabilize formerly homeless people in permanent housing. The articles in this issue outline a range of strategies at the systems, services, and individual levels, targeted across the life span. The issue offers the beginning of a conceptual approach that can shape a comprehensive homelessness prevention framework and galvanize ongoing change. The development of this special issue was done through the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)- funded National Resource and Training Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness (contract # 270-03-4005) which is operated by The CDM Group, Inc. in partnership with the National Center on Family Homelessness and the CMHS-funded Homeless Resource Center (contract # HHSS280200600029C) which is operated by The Institute on Homelessness and Trauma.
Women and Depression (Fast Fact6)
Card
This fact card provides facts about women and depression and a list of resources. 2001.
Women's Mental Health: What It Means To You (OWH09-CONSUMER)
Booklet
This is a consumer booklet that addresses the stigma associated with mental health, with information on the signs and symptoms of mental illness. It also provides suggestions for support and solutions for preventing and coping with mental illness.

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