Forensic Services Certificate

Faculty

Stephanie Hartwell, Ph.D., Yale University, Program Director
Professor Hartwell is conducting research on the community reintegration of mentally ill offenders with the Division of Forensic Services, Department of Mental Health; Research Fellow, UMass Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Center for Mental Health Services Research
Representative Publications:
  • Hartwell, Stephanie W. "More of a Danger to Myself: Community Re-entry of Dually Diagnosed Females Involved in the Criminal Justice System." In Anderson, Tammy (Editor), Neither Villain nor Victim: Toward an Empowered Approach to Women and Drugs, Rutgers University Press, 2007.
  • Hartwell, Stephanie and Paul Benson. "Social Integration." In William R. Avison, Jane D. McLeod, and Bernice A. Pescosolido (eds), Mental Health, Social Mirror, New York: Springer Publishing, 2007.
  • Hartwell, Stephanie W., Sarah Kuck Jalbert, and Karin Orr. 2006. "Persons With Mental Illness Post Prison Release." Law Enforcement Executive Forum. Vol. 6(3):181-190.
Paul Benson, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Associate Professor
During the past several years, Professor Benson has been involved in research projects evaluating recent changes in mental health policy and services at the state and national level. These include community-based mental health services, family support services, and mental health services under managed care. In the fall of 1995, Benson began a three-year appointment as Vice Provost of Sponsored Projects and Public Service at the University. In that role, Benson oversaw externally funded research at the University as well as the University’s many research institutes and centers.
Representative Publications:
  • A Statewide Network of Family Support Services: The Massachusetts Family Support Project. Evaluation & Program Planning (1996).
  • Mental Health Policy and Programs in International Perspective. The International Journal of Law & Psychiatry. (1996)
Rick Houser, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Associate Professor
Professor Houser also serves as co-chair of the Mental Health Track in the Graduate School of Education’s School Counseling Program
Susan Gore, Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania, Professor
Professor Gore’s research lies in the study of social stress and its role in mental health processes. More specific interests include the study of gender in relation to mental health, and the role of family and other relationships in stress and social support. Her current research project investigates the social and psychological functioning of young people as they make the transition from high school into the world of work and further schooling. The study involves the participation of students from a diversity of schools in southeastern Massachusetts, and includes young people who dropped out of their graduating cohort. It is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health.
Representative Publications:
  • Mary Ellen Colten and Susan Gore. 1991. Adolescent Stress. Aldine Press.
  • Jennifer Harnish, Robert Aseltine and Susan Gore. 2000. Resolution of stressful experiences as an indicator of coping effectiveness in young adults. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Vol 41(2), 2000.
  • Gore, Susan and Robert H. Aseltine, Jr. (in press). Race and ethnic differences in depressed mood following the transition from high school. Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Paul Nestor, Ph.D., Catholic University of America, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Professor Nestor is also associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He works in consultation with the Department of Mental Health, Division of Forensic Services as a Designated Forensic Psychiatrist
Russel K Schutt, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, Professor
Professor Schutt’s research interests include relationships between individuals and the social environment, with a particular focus on people with housing, medical and/or legal problems, on the organizations that respond to their needs, and on the role of service preferences and social processes in influencing their outcome.
Selected Books:
  • Schutt, Russell K. 2006. Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research, 5th ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, an imprint of Sage Publications.
  • Schutt, Russell K. and Gerald R. Garrett. 1992. Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice. New York: Plenum.
  • Schutt, Russell K. 1986. Organization in a Changing Environment: Unionization of Welfare Employees. Albany: SUNY Press.
Selected Articles:
  • Schutt, Russell K., Larry J. Seidman, Brina Caplan, Anna Martsinkiv, and Stephen M. Goldfinger. 2007. "The Role of Neurocognition and Social Context in Predicting Community Functioning among Formerly Homeless Seriously Mentally Ill Persons." Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33:1388-1396.
  • Schutt, Russell K., Robert E. Rosenheck, Walter E. Penk, Charles E. Drebing, and Catherine Leda Seibyl. 2005. "The Social Environment of Transitional Work and Residence Programs: Influences on Health and Functioning." Evaluation and Program Planning, 28:291-300.
  • Schutt, Russell K. and S. M. Goldfinger. 2000. "The Contingent Rationality of Housing Preferences: Homeless Mentally Ill Persons’ Housing Choices Before and After Housing Experience." Research in Community and Mental Health, 11:131-156.
Edward Stern, J.D., Boston University, Visiting Lecturer
He has been involved in private practice since 1976with experience in courtroom representation of criminal, juvenile, corporate, property, estate planning and civil legal cases.
Current Activities:
  • Member, Medical Policy Committee, National Neurofibromatosis Foundation; Board member and clerk, Citizens for Juvenile Justice; Member, Advisory Board, Paralegal Program, Boston University.
Representative Publications:
  • Stern, E. and E. Soltanoff. NAPLA Prelaw Advisor’s Guide. (Northeast Association of Prelaw Advisors, 1984 and 1987)
  • Stern, E. and G. Wilson, Ed.,(2000) The NAPLA/SAPLA Book of Law School Lists. Kaplan.
  • Stern, E. (1998). The Quandary of Affirmative Action. NAPLA Newsletter.