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  • 020309

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  • Published 2004.
  • 10 pages.

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Pregnant, Substance-Abusing, and Incarcerated: Exploratory Study of a Comprehensive Approach to Treatment

Publication year: 2004 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Results from a study regarding a community-based residential substance abuse treatment program which allowed infants to stay with their incarcerated mothers are reported. This article contains the following sections; abstract; background; treatment effectiveness; methodology; results according to participation and social and psychological well-being outcomes; discussion; and conclusion. "The findings suggest that such approaches [as this comprehensive treatment program] are efficacious in producing positive gains [in the short term] over the course of treatment for those who completed it" (p. 183).
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