JoAnn Y. Sacks|Karen McKendrick|Steven M. Banks
The impact of early trauma and abuse on residential substance abuse treatment outcomes for women
National Development and Research Institutes|National Development and Research Institutes|University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
study examines impact early abuse functioning 12month treatment outcomes 146 homeless addicted women entered residential substance abuse treatment sixtynine percent women reported exposure childhood physical sexual emotional abuse majority reported multiple forms abuse comparisons abused nonabused women revealed significant differences childhood adolescent adult functioning indicative pervasive detrimental effects early abuse female survivors childhood abuse improve treatment much nonabused peers psychological functioning p 001 substance abuse p 01 continuing trauma exposure p 01 findings suggest importance adapting models residential substance abuse treatment address concurrent issues related trauma history additional research needed identify effective integrated treatment approaches population explore independent interconnected pathways linking trauma history outcome