Residential treatment for women with dependent children: one agency's approach.
The Salvation Army First Choice Program, located in Fort Worth, Texas, provides comprehensive-as well as gender-specific-treatment for addicted women while providing child care and therapeutic services for children. Specific program attributes (including therapeutic interventions, community linkages, and staffing patterns) are described, and the five-year evaluation initiative, designed to examine relationships between client characteristics, program participation, and client progress is outlined. Findings from initial analyses examining correlates of 90-day dropout suggest a complex interaction among specific problems a woman brings to treatment, her level of dysfunction at treatment entry, how much social support is available to her, and what services she receives.
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Institute of Behavioral Research, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth 76129, USA. ibr@tcu.edu
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002654:Child Care / Q000379:methods; D002662:Child Health Services; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010352:Patient Dropouts; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012114:Residential Treatment / Q000379:methods*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D014932:Women's Health Services