Hundreds of victims do not receive adequate treatment to escape the violence probably never thought to leave their perpetrator would be so complicated. Rachel (not her real name) complained to his partner who, despite everything, still chasing her. When he tried to get help in a shelter he found the doors closed. Rachel was not a victim of domestic violence as others, She also suffered from drug addiction. "We had to accept it in our story," says a social worker at a center for drug addiction in Vigo. "But they are not adapted for them, at the outputs was afraid he continued." Housing for battered women exclude people with addictions in most regions, lacking the means to avoid potential problems of coexistence.
The lack of specialized resources, referrals to drug treatment centers, where more may share therapy with men who just have trouble controlling violence. In this environment, they find solutions to their problems emotional dependence, abuse or self-esteem. With the added risk of falling into new relationships ending storm.
How to reconcile this collective attention to the interests of others in need of help? The problem is complex and despite its invisibility, has no lower size. A study by the Association of Organizations of Agencies Day Centres (ASECEDI) concluded that 53% of women attending rehabilitation therapy were battered by their partners. This translates into hundreds of women a year. The profile is that of a young girl to study at medium-low and a somewhat precarious economic situation in many cases, with episodes of abuse in childhood. The accumulation of all these problems can lead to a dependent personality, both substances as potential partners, which often are consumers. According to research presented at the Project Man last National Congress of Psychiatry, 73% of female drug addicts has continued close relationships but they have been violent.
Caught in a double problem, are also great difficulties to access a shelter in the midst of the legal complexity of the various sites. "They have to wean or subjected to treatment with an explicit commitment to abandonment," they say in Asturias. "If consumption can not be serious immediately enter ", in Catalonia." They can not enter or with addictions or psychological disorders, "they say in Valencia. Andalucía distanced himself from the general rule regulating the end of 2007, the preferential entry for this group.
" The resources are well established a barrier to these women, "says Claudia Paolini, a psychologist at a host computer for battered women in Zaragoza. are the responsibility of the autonomous regions or municipalities themselves, and the entry requirements are specified in each center.
Most do not has specialized in personal health and addictions, so they do not admit to avoiding conflicts in peaceful coexistence. "Sometimes we can not help. We serve in part, through counseling, "says Paolini," but usually they exclude themselves from the therapy because they absorb the other problem. "
That" other problem "leads them to drug treatment centers. There, in mixed groups," the percentage of female participation is minimal, "according to the findings of a working group of the National Plan on Drugs, which examined the situation in 2006. The women, who bring their own problem of domestic abuse, sometimes come to join men who were romantically been violent toward their partners, as the psychologist Paolini recalls some of his experiences.
Policies for substance abuse have traditionally been defined taking men as universal pattern, as recognized by the Ministry of Health and by the end of 2006, and rarely pay attention to the particularities of the female (abuse, maternity, food). So was the need to increase social resources for women drug users, that allow a "comprehensive approach" of the problem.
In practice, this has been left to the will of those who work with them. The lack of specialization means that in certain centers, nevertheless continue in response to battered women with additional problems of alcoholism, drug addiction or mental disabilities. "He came often drunk ..." So begins the story in many of these centers, although discussed with suspicion and caution, it is a taboo subject. Despite repeated commitments to quit drinking, bureaucratic procedures for processing an expulsion may extend these situations too, and are left to social workers who attend them as they can, without help from doctors to monitor treatment.
"We are not prepared to work with these people," says an employee who is faced with these problems daily. "Sometimes even drink in the center." The situation becomes complicated then, starting with not perform the tasks and neglecting the health and coming to seek direct confrontation with other inmates. Expel poses a significant risk because they may be helpless against her attacker. "All we can do is refer them to specialized resources or health centers, but also depends on your will," concludes with impotence worker who prefers to remain anonymous.
"We must take into account this reality," says Juan Carlos Oria, director of the Center for drug Zuria Day of Navarre, who participated in the study of ASECEDI. "You can close your eyes just because they know that these people are not going to protest." The solution is, according to the professional, to adapt existing resources to address this situation particularly complex.
The Ministry of Health, which subsidized this research through the National Drug Plan, addressed the situation in the light of the results (the high rate of violence experienced by women participating in smoking cessation therapies). After a series of conclusions such as "increase social resources specifically for women with drug dependency" in practice has been limited to placing the female population as a priority for aid to the drug, says the Assistant Director-General José Oñorbe. Even here there is a tendency to create specific units of addiction treatment for victims of gender violence. PUBLISHED IN
How to reconcile this collective attention to the interests of others in need of help? The problem is complex and despite its invisibility, has no lower size. A study by the Association of Organizations of Agencies Day Centres (ASECEDI) concluded that 53% of women attending rehabilitation therapy were battered by their partners. This translates into hundreds of women a year. The profile is that of a young girl to study at medium-low and a somewhat precarious economic situation in many cases, with episodes of abuse in childhood. The accumulation of all these problems can lead to a dependent personality, both substances as potential partners, which often are consumers. According to research presented at the Project Man last National Congress of Psychiatry, 73% of female drug addicts has continued close relationships but they have been violent.
Caught in a double problem, are also great difficulties to access a shelter in the midst of the legal complexity of the various sites. "They have to wean or subjected to treatment with an explicit commitment to abandonment," they say in Asturias. "If consumption can not be serious immediately enter ", in Catalonia." They can not enter or with addictions or psychological disorders, "they say in Valencia. Andalucía distanced himself from the general rule regulating the end of 2007, the preferential entry for this group.
" The resources are well established a barrier to these women, "says Claudia Paolini, a psychologist at a host computer for battered women in Zaragoza. are the responsibility of the autonomous regions or municipalities themselves, and the entry requirements are specified in each center.
Most do not has specialized in personal health and addictions, so they do not admit to avoiding conflicts in peaceful coexistence. "Sometimes we can not help. We serve in part, through counseling, "says Paolini," but usually they exclude themselves from the therapy because they absorb the other problem. "
That" other problem "leads them to drug treatment centers. There, in mixed groups," the percentage of female participation is minimal, "according to the findings of a working group of the National Plan on Drugs, which examined the situation in 2006. The women, who bring their own problem of domestic abuse, sometimes come to join men who were romantically been violent toward their partners, as the psychologist Paolini recalls some of his experiences.
Policies for substance abuse have traditionally been defined taking men as universal pattern, as recognized by the Ministry of Health and by the end of 2006, and rarely pay attention to the particularities of the female (abuse, maternity, food). So was the need to increase social resources for women drug users, that allow a "comprehensive approach" of the problem.
In practice, this has been left to the will of those who work with them. The lack of specialization means that in certain centers, nevertheless continue in response to battered women with additional problems of alcoholism, drug addiction or mental disabilities. "He came often drunk ..." So begins the story in many of these centers, although discussed with suspicion and caution, it is a taboo subject. Despite repeated commitments to quit drinking, bureaucratic procedures for processing an expulsion may extend these situations too, and are left to social workers who attend them as they can, without help from doctors to monitor treatment.
"We are not prepared to work with these people," says an employee who is faced with these problems daily. "Sometimes even drink in the center." The situation becomes complicated then, starting with not perform the tasks and neglecting the health and coming to seek direct confrontation with other inmates. Expel poses a significant risk because they may be helpless against her attacker. "All we can do is refer them to specialized resources or health centers, but also depends on your will," concludes with impotence worker who prefers to remain anonymous.
"We must take into account this reality," says Juan Carlos Oria, director of the Center for drug Zuria Day of Navarre, who participated in the study of ASECEDI. "You can close your eyes just because they know that these people are not going to protest." The solution is, according to the professional, to adapt existing resources to address this situation particularly complex.
The Ministry of Health, which subsidized this research through the National Drug Plan, addressed the situation in the light of the results (the high rate of violence experienced by women participating in smoking cessation therapies). After a series of conclusions such as "increase social resources specifically for women with drug dependency" in practice has been limited to placing the female population as a priority for aid to the drug, says the Assistant Director-General José Oñorbe. Even here there is a tendency to create specific units of addiction treatment for victims of gender violence. PUBLISHED IN
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