Boston Consortium of Services for Families in Recovery

Psychological distress among victimized women on probation and parole: A latent class analysis.

“…As such, service delivery for this population should not only be integrated, but trauma informed (for further discussion of trauma-informed and trauma-specific care see The SAMHSA National GAINS Center, 2011). For example, The Boston Consortium Model: Trauma-Informed Substance Abuse Treatment for Women (Amaro et al, 2005) is a trauma-informed, integrated approach to address co-occurring issues related to substance use, mental health, and trauma. Its comprehensive model has been integrated into substance abuse treatment programs serving clients experiencing multiple stressors, including high rates of court-ordered participation, and could be adapted for use with women on probation and parole (Amaro et al, 2007).…”

A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Treatment of Co-occurring Opioid Use Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Pregnancy: A Case Report

“…Seeking Safety has been tested primarily in women, but with mixed results (Brown et al, 2007; McHugo & Fallot, 2011; Lisa M. Najavits et al, 2006). The Boston Consortium Model utilizes service-system integration strategies and skill-building group modules (Amaro et al, 2005). The Triad Women's Project addresses mental health, substance abuse, & trauma with an emphasis on skills building (Salasin, 2005).…”

Getting Personal

“…Since then, much of my work has focused on the application of evidence-based interventions and principles to the development, implementation, and evaluation of gender-specific community-based programs and services for HIV prevention (Amaro, Raj, Reed, & Cranston, 2002; Raj et al, 2002) and for treatment of addiction and mental health and post-traumatic disorders in poor Latina and African American women (Amaro, Chernoff, Brown, Arevalo, & Gatz, 2007; Amaro, Dai, et al, 2007; Amaro, Gampbel, et al, 2005; Amaro, Larson, et al, 2007; Amaro, Melendez, Melnick, & Nieves, 2005). The transition to intervention approaches that address the interconnections among HIV, substance abuse, mental health, and trauma flowed naturally from results of clinical studies and program-implementation experiences that my team of clinicians and researchers conducted over time.…”

“…The intervention and treatment program models we developed over the last 20 years have been adopted by public health and community-based agencies and many continue to be implemented through the Boston Public Health Commission, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the New Hampshire Task Force on Women and Recovery, the Maine Alliance for Addiction Recovery, and numerous other state agencies, community-based organizations, treatment programs, and individual clinicians. I believe that this transport from research to practice has been facilitated not only by the dissemination of our published research papers but also by the intervention and treatment manuals that we have developed to be used by staff who work in community-based agencies, rather than by researchers (Amaro & Nieves, 2004a, 2004b; Amaro, Nieves, & Saunders, 2004; Amaro, Nieves, Saunders, & Marshall, 2009; Amaro, Mangual, & Nieves, 2004; Amaro, Melendez, et al, 2005; Amaro & Vallejo, 2009; Harris, Wallis, & Amaro, 2006). …”

“…I was very excited to finally meet one of my heroines in HIV/AIDS research and have the opportunity to work with her. Dr. Amaro's research on a trauma-informed intervention model for low-income African American and Latina women's drug addiction and HIV sexual risk behaviors Amaro, Larson, et al, 2007;Amaro, McGraw, et al, 2004) led me to consider substance use, co-occurring mental disorders, and trauma in my postdoctoral research with FSWs in Mexico. Subsequently, she and I coauthored several papers examining the relationship between GBV (e.g., intimate partner violence, client-perpetrated violence), IDU, and HIV risk among FSWs in Mexico (Ulibarri et al, 2011;Ulibarri, Semple, et al, 2009;Ulibarri, Strathdee, et al, in press;Ulibarri, Strathdee, Lozada, et al, 2010).…”