- How sexual trauma poses a unique risk to women’s mental health
- Sanctuary trauma in treatment settings
- Motherhood, family and relationships
- Work and financial challenges
- Research limitations, potential risks, and future directions in research and treatment
- Race/ethnicity
- Sexuality (LGBQIA)
- Gender diversity (transgender and nonbinary people)
- Class and socioeconomic status
- Spirituality and religion
A How to Guide on Employing Gender Responsive Treatment Models in Your Practice
- Concrete tools for recovery-oriented care
- Interventions guided by the needs and nuances of women
- Incorporate a gender-sensitive lens to inform evidence-based interventions
- What is trauma-informed care for women experiencing PTSD?
- How to interweave a trauma-informed care perspective
Tools to Enhance Your Clinical Treatment of Female Clients
- Case studies and interview excerpts
- Enhance self-growth - worksheets to complete with clients
- Treatment strategies with an evidence-base for women with PTSD and serious mental illnesses
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Psychiatric rehabilitation
- Applying a gender-responsive and intersectional framework
- Scales/inventories for clinical use
- Self-assessment for clinical practice – where you can grow?
- Holistic perspective activity – why clinicians need to understand the history of mistreatment of women with mental illness?
- How a gender-responsive approach differs from treatment as usual
- Treatment planning exercise – conceptualize treatment from a gender-responsive lens
- “Raya,” an African American, 30-year-old, bisexual woman with schizophrenia, physical disabilities and history of sexual trauma
- “Emmie,” a 50-year-old, heterosexual Asian American woman and mother who has struggled with severe depression and suicidality throughout her life
- “Kris” a White American queer-identified person assigned female at birth in their 40s with bipolar disorder

