Gender Perspective in Dual Diagnosis
Torrens, Marta (Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques)
Orengo, Teresa (Hospital Clínic Universitari (València))
Rodríguez de Fonseca, Fernando (Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas de Málaga)
Almodóvar, Isabel (Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera)
Baquero, Abel (Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera)
Benito, Ana (Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Date:	2021
Abstract:	Little data are available for women diagnosed with a dual diagnosis. However, dual diagnosis in women presents increased stigma, social penalties, and barriers to access to treatment than it does for men. Indeed, it increases the probability of suffering physical or sexual abuse, violent victimization, gender-based violence, unemployment, social exclusion, social-role problems, and physical and psychiatric comorbidities. Thus, a transversal sex and gender-based perspective is required to adequately study and treat dual diagnosis. For this, sex and gender factors should be included in every scientific analysis; professionals should review their own prejudices and stereotypes and train themselves specifically from a gender perspective; administrations should design and provide specific treatment resources for women; and we could all contribute to a structural social transformation that goes beyond gender mandates and norms and reduces the risk of abuse and violence inflicted on women.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Dual diagnosis ; Gender perspective ; Women
Published in:	Brain sciences, Vol. 11 (august 2021) , ISSN 2076-3425

DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11081101
PMID: 34439720

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