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[Music] hello and welcome to let's talk a podcast series brought to you by hazel and betty ford it's a new season too and we are glad you've tuned in i'm your host william c moyers today we are joined by dr stephanie covington whose expertise spans the gamut of issues related to addiction treatment and recovery but specifically today we talk about how these issues affect women and the importance of gender responsive care thank you stephanie for joining us today and i thought i would start by asking for your insight on how it is that trauma affects women differently than men well trauma affects women differently just like addiction impacts women differently with trauma women are much more likely to have interpersonal violence that that the abuse that they they often experience in their childhood continues into their relationships as adolescents and then as adults which is very unusual for a man so different different kinds of abuse and trauma in the lives of men and women and what about the big t versus the little t that you talk about i mean obviously sexual violence against a woman would be a big t um what are some of the other uh traumatic experiences that a woman might have yeah when we talk about big t big t are the things that are life-threatening uh where you are you have a fear you're going to lose your life small t are the kinds of traumatic events that when you experience them they have a negative impact but they're not necessarily life-threatening so we find that you know more often boys are bullied girls are teased if we look at what happens on cell phones girls uh are are stocked in ways that boys generally are not so there's different kind of traumatic experiences for for youth and for women same thing with women are more often stock than men are in their adult lives when did our field become cognizant of the need to take a different approach to clinically treating women well it's been a slow evolutionary process and it really started in the 70s with the women's movement and women came together in the 70s and they talked about in small consciousness raising groups they talked about the realities of their lives and we heard about domestic violence childhood sexual abuse addiction to alcohol and other drugs and in the 70s the federal government set up 12 demonstration projects addiction treatment for women around the country and then from there we moved into the 80s and people started talking about gender responsive treatment and then in the 90s i developed a definition for gender responsive treatment and so it's been a process it's just like most things in life it's it's been a developmental process give us that definition please if you would about gender responsive care sure so initially the definition was this is creating an environment through site selection staff selection program development...