Review of Literature of Women with Co-occurring Disorders through the Feminist and Black Feminist Perspective

Creswell, Laryssa M

doi:10.4172/2155-6105.1000267

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“…Viewed in this way, it is possible to identify gender inequality as shaping addiction-related harm in important ways; for example, through women's social responsibility for family and child well-being, and experiences of poverty, discrimination, trauma, and harassment. From this perspective, quality and effective services for families should acknowledge, understand, and respond to the lived experience of women and families in a patriarchal society (Creswell, 2016). Morrison and Wilson (2015) illustrated intersectional issues of racism, and women's poverty and positioning as primary caregivers in society, to make sense of gambling harm for New Zealand Indigenous Māori women-living disproportionately in high deprivation neighbourhoods, with low incomes, overcrowded and substandard housing, and carrying the burden of providing and caring for multiple generations (Morrison & Wilson, 2015).…”

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A Critical Analysis of Interventions for Women Harmed by Others’ Gambling

Preez

Landon

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At present, gambling studies literature has multiple understandings of family and others affected (FAOs) by gambling harm and their support needs in play, each with different possibilities and constraints for harm reduction engagement with women. Individual psychological approaches have been privileged, eschewing the social and relational situation of gambling and harm in women’s lives. In Australasia, the majority of those seeking support in relation to a significant others’ gambling are women. Gender has been posited as a shaping force in the social stratification system, distribution of resources, and gambling and harm within society. There has been minimal engagement with the lived experiences of FAOs, which limits gambling harm reduction service development and planning. This research critically engaged with gambling harm reduction studies for FAOs, alongside interviews with eight women FAOs who presented to community services from a social constructionist perspective. The aim was to provide insight into how women FAOs position themselves and their support needs in relation to gambling harm and recovery. Data was analysed using thematic analysis informed by feminist poststructuralist theories of language. Results suggested that this small group of women were subject to intersecting patriarchal constraints and economic determinants of gambling harm. Powerful normative and moral constructions of ‘good/bad’ mothers operated to individualise some women’s responsibility for addressing harm in families and to alienate these women from gambling support services. These findings suggest that gambling services must support women and families in ways that go beyond personal functioning, extending into the social and political conditions of possibility for harm and recovery. Critical psychology and coherent gender analysis may offer opportunities to expand the role of gambling support to include advocacy, community development, and more client-led and gender-aware practice with women affected by gambling harm.

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