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The
Social Sciences Research and Innovations Laboratory (SSRI) performs
quantitative and qualitative health services research focused on
innovation at individual, practice and system levels of inquiry.
Psychology, anthropology, sociology, public health, criminology
and statistics are represented in the laboratory.
Conduct of studies concerning system and practice
issues of the use of multiple service and support sectors by persons
with mental disorders, with special emphasis on
1..Ethnographic analyses of how programs work, their intended and
unintended consequences, needed revisions and potential for replication
2. Exploration, documentation, and incorporation of consumer perspectives
on recovery, healing, social integration, system negotiation
3. Analysis of barriers and promising approaches for effectively
serving people with co-occurring mental health and substance use
problems
The
SSRI research portfolio maintains a focus on recovery for people
with complex and serious mental health problems. Current projects
include mental health and chemical dependency case finding across
systems of care; local strategies to integrate systems and services
for people with co occurring disorders, consumers’ strategies
for adhering to prescribed medications; recovery narratives; healing
from sexual abuse trauma; costs of trauma to state systems of care;
natural helping networks, including clergy; cultural competence
of providers of mental health services. Projects typically rely
on collaborative relationships with policy makers in mental health,
chemical dependency and social welfare, or directly with consumer
stakeholders.
The
laboratory provides technical assistance in qualitative methods
to investigators, and on practice and policy strategies for integrating
services for people with co-occurring disorders to localities and
state agencies.
Selected
Projects ~
I. Co-occurring Disorders: Mary Jane Alexander, Gary Haugland
1. NYS survey of local governments on integrating services for persons
with dual disorders
2. Process evaluation of Dual Recovery Coordinator Initiative
3. Selection and validation of screens for co-occurring disorders
for NYS OMH
4. Development of a comprehensive MICA briefing book for the NYS
Mental Health Association
5. Analysis of strategic opportunities for policy and service demonstrations
of service/system integration
II. Recovery: Mary Jane Alexander,
Kim Hopper
1. Development of a model of healing from childhood trauma
2. Examination of consumer response to advance directives
3. Development and successful funding of an NIMH Developing Services
Research Center entitled Recovery
in Social Contexts that will apply and test a “capabilities”
framework for enhancing services research on recovery using interdisciplinary
and participatory research
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- Recovery
- Capability
Theory
- Systems
Cordination
- Co-occurring
Disorders
Social
Sciences Research and Innovation
Mary Jane Alexander, Ph.D.
Director
Kim
Hopper, Ph.D.
Gary Haugland, MA
Research
Scientists
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