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| Christy ScottSummaryAffiliation: Chestnut Health Systems Country: USA Publications
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Maximizing follow-up in longitudinal studies of traumatized populationsChristy K Scott
Chestnut Health Systems, Chicago and Bloomington, IL 60610, USA
J Trauma Stress 19:757-69. 2006..The effectiveness of the model is examined with reference to traumatic stress in a large community sample (N = 887) with eight waves of data over 2 years...
The first 90 days following release from jail: findings from the Recovery Management Checkups for Women Offenders (RMCWO) experimentChristy K Scott
Chestnut Health Systems, Chicago, IL 60610, United States
Drug Alcohol Depend 125:110-8. 2012..control in the first 90 days post-release from jail on receipt of community-based substance abuse treatment, and (2) To explore the impact of RMC, treatment, and abstinence on HIV risk behaviors and recidivism...
Surviving drug addiction: the effect of treatment and abstinence on mortalityChristy K Scott
Lighthouse Institute, Chestnut Health Systems, Chicago, IL, USA
Am J Public Health 101:737-44. 2011..We also estimated overall mortality rates and the extent to which they varied according to demographic, clinical severity, and treatment variables...
Results from two randomized clinical trials evaluating the impact of quarterly recovery management checkups with adult chronic substance usersChristy K Scott
Chestnut Health Systems, 221 West Walton, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
Addiction 104:959-71. 2009..These two experiments tested the effectiveness of recovery management checkup (RMC) protocols for adult chronic substance users...
Impact of centralized intake on case management servicesChristy K Scott
Lighthouse Institute, Chestnut Health Systems, Chicago, Illinois 60610, USA
J Psychoactive Drugs 34:51-7. 2002..No differences were found in the amount or length of substance abuse treatment services received by participants in the two conditions...
Utilizing Recovery Management Checkups to shorten the cycle of relapse, treatment reentry, and recoveryChristy K Scott
Chestnut Health Systems, Inc, Lighthouse Institute, 712 N Wells, Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 78:325-38. 2005..The methods in this study also provide a simple but replicable method for learning more about the multiple pathways that individuals travel along before achieving a prolonged state of recovery...
Ethical issues in the conduct of longitudinal studies of addiction treatmentChristy K Scott
Lighthouse Institute, Chestnut Health Systems, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 28:S91-S101. 2005....
Pathways in the relapse--treatment--recovery cycle over 3 yearsChristy K Scott
Lighthouse Institute, Chestnut Health Systems, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 28:S63-72. 2005..While exploratory and observational, several of the predictors are time-dependent and identify promising targets for interventions designed to shorten the cycle and increase the long-term effectiveness of treatment...
Impact of centralized intake on drug and alcohol treatment placement decisionsChristy K Scott
Lighthouse Institute, Chestnut Health Systems, Chicago, Illinois 60610, USA
J Psychoactive Drugs 34:7-15. 2002..The results indicate that the implementation of ASAM PPC-2 is both feasible and produces expected changes in the placement decision process...
A replicable model for achieving over 90% follow-up rates in longitudinal studies of substance abusersChristy K Scott
Lighthouse Institute, Chestnut Health Systems, 712 N Wells, Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 74:21-36. 2004..An examination of the effect of attrition on validity in these two samples demonstrated that even the traditionally acceptable 30% level of attrition can result in significant bias and that the nature of the bias is unpredictable...
The duration and correlates of addiction and treatment careersMichael L Dennis
Chestnut Health Systems, Bloomington, IL 61701, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 28:S51-62. 2005....
Gender differences in victimization severity and outcomes among adolescents treated for substance abuseJanet C Titus
Chestnut Health Systems, Bloomington, IL 61701, USA
Child Maltreat 8:19-35. 2003..When used as grouping variables, gender and severity of victimization significantly interacted with measures of intake status and were significant predictors of 3-month postdischarge treatment outcomes...
An eight-year perspective on the relationship between the duration of abstinence and other aspects of recoveryMichael L Dennis
Chestnut Health Systems, Chicago and Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Eval Rev 31:585-612. 2007..The findings demonstrate the rich patterns of change associated with the course of long-term recovery...
The Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) experiment: rationale, study design and analysis plansMichael Dennis
Chestnut Health Systems CHS, Bloomington, Chicago, and Madison, IL 61701, USA
Addiction 97:16-34. 2002..This paper provides a description of the rationale, study design, treatments and assessment procedures used in the Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) experiment...
Managing addiction as a chronic conditionMichael Dennis
Chestnut Health Systems, Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Addict Sci Clin Pract 4:45-55. 2007..We also address the importance of adjusting treatment funding and organizational structures to better meet the needs of individuals with a chronic disease...
Development and validation of short versions of the internal mental distress and behavior complexity scales in the Global Appraisal of Individual Needs (GAIN)Janet C Titus
Chestnut Health Systems, Lighthouse Institute, 720 W Chestnut St, Bloomington, IL 61701, USA
J Behav Health Serv Res 35:195-214. 2008..Parallel tests of construct validity show no substantial loss when moving from the longer to shorter versions. The short scales maintain good sensitivity and specificity for predicting diagnostic impressions...
Gender similarities and differences in the treatment, relapse, and recovery cycleChristine E Grella
UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA
Eval Rev 32:113-37. 2008..Women are one third less likely to transition from recovery to using; the predictors of transitioning to different statuses vary by gender. The implications of gender as a moderator of the recovery process are discussed...
The interaction of co-occurring mental disorders and recovery management checkups on substance abuse treatment participation and recoveryBrian R Rush
Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
Eval Rev 32:7-38. 2008..It is effective in linking participants in need to treatment, with equal or better outcomes among those with more mental disorders. The data support the utility of monitoring and re-intervention for clients with co-occurring disorders...
Gender differences in long-term drug treatment outcomes in Chicago PETSChristine E Grella
UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 28:S3-12. 2005..Although both men and women showed significant improvements following treatment, gender differences persisted in several areas of psychosocial functioning related to recovery...
Combining psychometric and biometric measures of substance useRichard Lennox
Psychometric Technologies, 2404 Western Park Lane, Hillsborough, NC 27278, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 83:95-103. 2006..While the research was limited in some ways, it has important implications for the ongoing debate about the proper way to combine biometric and psychometric data...
Research Grants
- Recovery Management Checkups for Women Offenders (RMC-WO) ExperimentChristy K Scott; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Recovery Management Checkups for Women Offenders (RMC-WO) ExperimentChristy Scott; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Recovery Management Checkups for Women Offenders (RMC-WO) ExperimentChristy Scott; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Pathways to Recovery for Substance Abusers in TreatmentChristy Scott; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..
- Pathways to Recovery: Older Substance UsersChristy K Scott; Fiscal Year: 2010....
