Manualized 18-session (2-hour sessions) group treatment for adolescent girls with histories of substance abuse, emotional problems, and violence/trauma/abuse, based on the Triad Women’s Group and extensively revised for at-risk adolescent females experiencing difficulties in their academic and social functioning. The manual isintended to assist girls in discontinuing or avoiding substance use and abuse as well asother risky behaviors, to empower them to a state of improved mental health, to support their survival and healing from violence and trauma, to identify strengths that helped them survive, and to decrease chances they will become involved with or re-enter the juvenile justice system.
Women with trauma histories, co-occuring disorders,residential or outpaitient treatment facilities, now offered in jails.