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Course

  • 42001 Substance Use Practice

Job Experience

  • Director of Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment, Thresholds
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dartmouth Medical School, Department of Community and Family Medicine
  • Consultant, Illinois Deparment of Mental Health
  • Program Director, Thresholds

Fields of Special Interest

  • Implementing integrated mental health and substance abuse treatment for people with co-occurring disorders
  • Research and clinical work focused on enhancing motivation to change substance use behavior among people with mental illness and substance use disorders
  • Adolescents involved with the juvenile justice system

Publications or Presentations

  • Devitt, T.S., Davis, K.E., Kinley, M., & Smyth, J. (2009). The evolution of Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment at Thresholds: lessons learned. American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 12, 93-107.
  • Davis, K.E., Devitt, T.S., Rollins, A.L., O’Neill, S.J., Pavick, D.L., & Harding, B.P. (2006). Integrated residential treatment for persons with severe and persistent mental Illness: lessons in recovery. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 38, 263-272.
  • Implementing Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment on Assertive Community Treatment Teams:  Lessons Learned.  The 26th Annual Assertive Community Treatment Association Conference, Chicago, IL, June 2010. 
  • Implementing Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders. The Illinois Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Association Annual Conference, Naperville, IL, October 2009.

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